Chapter 5 Flashcards
Define bilateral kinship
A system in which individuals trace their descent through both parents
Define brideservice
The requirement that when a couple marries, the groom must work for the bride’s parents for some specified time.
Define clans
Unilineal descent groups whose members claim descent from a common ancestor.
Define dowry
The goods and valuables a bride’s family supplies to the groom’s family or to the couple.
Define endogamy
A rule that requires a person to marry someone inside his or her own group (e.g., a lineage, an ethnic group, a religious group)
Define ethnographic present
Use of the present tense to describe a culture, although the description may refer to situations that existed in the past.
Define exogamy
A rule that requires a person to marry someone outside his or her own group.
Define extended family
A family group based on blood relations of three or more generations.
Define impartible inheritance
A form of inheritance in which family property is passed undivided to one heir.
Define incest taboo
A rule that prohibits sexual relations among kin of certain categories, such as brothers or sisters, parents and children, or, in some cases, cousins.
Define kin term
Culture-specific vocabulary to denote family relationships. These terms may or may not correspond to an anthropologist’s kin type
Define kin type
Terms used by anthropologists to denote biological relationships among family members
Define kinship
Refers to the anthropological, cross-cultural study of family composition, marriage, and descent patterns.
Define matriineage
A lineage that is formed by tracing descent in the female line.
Define matrilineal kinship
A system of descent in which persons are related to their kin through the mother onlyD
Define nuclear family
The family group consisting of father, mother, and their biological or adopted children
Define partible inheritance
A form of inheritance in which the goods or property of a family is divided among the heirs.
Define patrilineage
A lineage that is formed by tracing descent in the male line.
Define patrilineal kinship
A system of descent in which persons are related to their kin through the father only.
Define polyamory
The practice of engaging in consensual intimate relationships with multiple people.
Define polyandry
A form of marriage in which a woman is permitted to have more than one husband
Define polygamy
A form of marriage in which a person is permitted to have more than one spouse
Define polygyny
A form of marriage in which a man is permitted to have more than one wife.
