Chapter 11 - Marriage

Question 1

Marriage

Answer 1

one primary way of converting strangers into friends, of creating and maintaining personal and political alliances, and creating relationships of affinity

Question 2

Exogamy

Answer 2

practice of seeking a spouse outside one’s own group

Question 3

Incest

Answer 3

sexual contact with a relative

Question 4

Parallel Cousins

Answer 4

your mother’s sister’s children and/or your father’s brother’s children

Question 5

Cross Cousins

Answer 5

your mother’s brother’s children and/or your father’s sister’s children

Question 6

Endogamy

Answer 6

marriage of people from the same group

Question 7

Homogamy

Answer 7

marry someone familiar

Question 7

Leachy

Answer 7

argued that the rights allocated by marriage include:
- establishing a legal father and mother
- giving a monopoly in sexuality of the other
- giving rights to the labor of the other
- giving rights over the others property
- establishing a joint fund of property
- establishing a socially significant “relationship of affinity”

Question 8

Plural Marriage

Answer 8

being married to more than two spouses simultaneously

Question 9

Polygyny

Answer 9

a man has more than one wife

Question 10

Polyandry

Answer 10

a woman has more than one husband

Question 11

Lobola

Answer 11

substantial marital gift from husband and his kin to the wife and her kin

Question 12

Dowry

Answer 12

marital exchange in which wife’s group provides substantial gifts to husband’s family