Anthro Definitions

Question 1

Westermark’s marriage

Answer 1

Marriage is a religiously accepted union of man and woman living together with mutually agreed sexual rights

Question 2

Murdock’s marriage

Answer 2

It is a universal institution consisting of individuals establishing a family by living together with economic cooperation

Question 3

Seligman’s marriage

Answer 3

Marriage is a union between man and woman, wherein the children born to the woman are accepted to be the legal children of the couple

Question 4

Madam and Majundar’s marriage

Answer 4

Marriage consists of social and economic relations arising out of sexual relations between man and woman, which is accepted by religion or civil law

Question 5

Stephen’s marriage in “The Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective”

Answer 5

Marriage is a legally accepted sexual union. It is more or less permanent relationship between the couple with mutually accepted economic rights and responsibilities between the couple and between the couple and their future children.

Question 6

Malinowski’s marriage

Answer 6

A legal marriage gives a woman a socially accepted husband and to her children a socially accepted father

Question 7

R C Brown’s marriage

Answer 7

A social arrangement by which a child is given a legitimate position in a society

Question 8

Kathaleen Gough’s marriage

Answer 8

Marriage is a union of a woman with one or more other individuals establishing reciprocal rights and responsibilities between them and their to be children giving all the rights to children as a member of that society

Question 9

Firth Economic Anthro (EA)

Answer 9

EA deals primarily with the economic aspects of social relatives

Question 10

Nash EA

Answer 10

EA analyzes economic life as a sub-system of society

Question 11

Beals and Hoijer EA

Answer 11

EA studies the production of goods and services and their distribution and consumption as these, are institutionalized or formalized in socio-cultural sub-systems

Question 12

Plattener EA

Answer 12

EA studies economic behaviour as thoroughly embedded in socio-cultural aspects

Question 13

Tylor’s Religion

Answer 13

Belief in spiritual beings

Question 14

Durkheim’s religion

Answer 14

Unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things

Question 15

Malinowski’s religion

Answer 15

Religion is a mode of action as well as a system of belief and a social phenomenon, as well as personal and collective experience

Question 16

Evans Pritchard Religion

Answer 16

Religion is the way in which a society maintains its solidarity and ensures its continuity

Question 17

Wallace religion

Answer 17

A set of rituals rationalizes by myth, which mobilizes transformations of state in man and nature

Question 18

Paul Bohannan’s Political Anthro (PA)

Answer 18

It studies the spatial, structural, organizational, and functional aspects of the political system of the primitive and peasant populations and to sone extent the urban populations in relation to culture and society.

Question 19

Fried PA

Answer 19

A study that deals with political organization comprising those portions of social organization that specifically relate to the individuals or groups that manage the affairs of public policy or seek to control the appointment or activities of those individuals or groups

Question 20

Swartz, Turner, and Tuden’s PA

Answer 20

A study of the processes involved in determining and implementing public goals and in the differential achievements and use of power by the members of the group concerned with the goals