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Intro. To Cultural Anthro. > Ch. 7: Kinship, Marriage, and Family > Flashcards

Ch. 7: Kinship, Marriage, and Family Flashcards

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Ambilineal Descent

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Parents have the choice of affiliating their children with either kinship group

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Ambilocal Residence

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The married couple has a choice of living with either the relatives of the wife or the relatives of the husband

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Arranged Marriage

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A marriage in which the selection of the spouse is outside the control of the bride and groom

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Avunculocal Residence

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The married couple lives with or near the husband’s mother’s brother

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Bilateral Descent

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A person is related equally to both the mother’s and father’s sides of the family

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Bride service

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Work or service performed for the brides family by the groom for a specified period of time either before or after the marriage

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Bridewealth

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The compensation given upon marriage by the family of the groom to the family of the bride

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Consanguineal relatives

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Those people to whom we are related through birth or blood

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Cross cousins

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The children of siblings of the opposite sex

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Descent

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A person’s kinship connections traced back through a number of generations

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Divorce

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The formal dissolution of a marriage

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Dowry

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Goods or money transferred from the bride’s family to the groom or to the groom’s family

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Endogamy

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Marrying within a certain group

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Exogamy

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Marrying outside of a certain group

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Extended Family

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Two or more nuclear families that are linked by blood ties

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Fictive kinship

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Relationships that are determined by neither blood nor marriage

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Incest taboo

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The prohibition on mating with certain categories of relatives

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Kinship system

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Those relationships found in all societies that are based on blood or marriage

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Levirate

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The custom whereby a widow is expected to marry the brother (or some close male relative) of her dead husband

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Matriarchy

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The women in a society have more authority and decision-making prerogatives than the men

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Matrilineal descent

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A form of descent in which people trace their primary kin connections through their mothers

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Matrilocal residence

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The married couple lives with or near the relatives of the wife

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Monogamy

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The marriage of one man to one woman at a time

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Multilineal descent

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Ancestry traced through both females and males and includes ambilineal descent and bilateral descent

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Neolocal residence

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The married couple establishes an independent place of residence away from the relatives of either spouse

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Nuclear family

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A two-generation family formed around the marital union and the children

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Parallel cousins

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The children of siblings of the same sex

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Patrilineal descent

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A form of descent in which people trace their primary kin relationships through their fathers

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Patrilocal residence

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The married couple lives with or near the relatives of the husband’s father

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Polyandry

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The marriage of a woman to two or more men at the same time

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Polygyny

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The marriage of a man to two or more women at the same time

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Preferential cousin marriage

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A marriage between either parallel or cross cousins

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Serial monogamy

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Taking a number of different spouses one after another rather than at the same time

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Sororate

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The practice of a widower marrying the sister (or some close femLe relative) of his deceased wife

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Unilineal descent

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Whereby people trace their ancestry through either the mother’s line or the father’s line, but not both

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Affinal Relatives

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Those to whom we are related through marriage

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