Exam 3

Question 1

Levirate

Answer 1

forced marriage of a widow to the brother of her deceased husband

Question 2

Sorority

Answer 2

a husband engages in marriage or sexual relations with the sister of his wife, usually after the death of his wife or if his wife has proven infertile

Question 3

most common unilinear system

Answer 3

Iroquois

Question 4

Hawaiin

Answer 4

All cousins are siblings and aunts/uncles are mom and dad

Question 5

Endogamy

Answer 5

Marriage within a particular group or category of individuals

Question 6

Dry lands

Answer 6

18% land space, 4% world’s population

arid regions/deserts on west coasts

Question 7

Tropical Forest Lands

Answer 7

1% land, 4% population

Question 8

Mid-latitude mixed forest lands

Answer 8

7% land, 43% population

mid-latitude regions on west coasts

Question 9

Mid-latitude mixed forest lands

Answer 9

7% land, 43% population

Question 10

What has the largest portion of the world’s population?

Answer 10

Mid-latitude mixed forest lands

Question 11

Grasslands

Answer 11

19% land, 6% population

lands between forests and deserts

Question 12

Boreal Forest lands

Answer 12

10% land, 1% population

northern hemisphere north of mixed forest lands and grasslands

Question 13

Polar Lands

Answer 13

16% land, handful population

Question 14

Mountain Lands

Answer 14

12% land, 12% population

Question 15

Clan

Answer 15

extended unilinear kinship group whose members have a common descent from a remote ancestor

Question 16

Phratry

Answer 16

Unilineal descent group composed of at least two clans that supposedly share a common ancestor

Question 17

What did Margaret Mead do?

Answer 17

examined the relationship of culture to sex roles

Question 18

Mead concluded what?

Answer 18

that sex roles are culturally produced

Question 19

What did Ruth Benedict do?

Answer 19

Identified ideal personality types which link individuals and culture

Question 20

What did the Six Cultures Project examine?

Answer 20

child-rearing patterns in 6 diverse cultures

Question 21

Kenya

Answer 21

fear/physical punishment

Question 22

Okinawa

Answer 22

praise to obtain desired behavior

Question 23

Philippines

Answer 23

mothers warm and indulgent

Question 24

India

Answer 24

mothers rarely cuddle or kiss children

Question 25

Malinowski and Freud

Answer 25

Oedipus conflict not supported among Trobriand Islanders

Tension between son and mother’s bride

Question 26

Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa

Answer 26

Free love is condoned with an absence of adolescent…

Question 27

Ruth Benedict and Jane Murphy

Answer 27

Benedict’s psychiatric relativism

Murphy’s “Psychiatric Labeling in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Question 28

Walter Goldschmidt

Answer 28

selected 4 groups: Kamba, Hehe, Sebei, Pokot

Question 29

Goldschmidt’s conclusions

Answer 29

economic pursuits influence the values and dimensions of human personality

Question 30

George Foster

Answer 30

Image of Limited Good

Question 31

Image of Limited Good

Answer 31

common perception of world

peasant’s view world as finite with limited resources

Question 32

Hunting and gathering:

Answer 32

group marriage

Question 33

Horticultural

Answer 33

polyandry

Question 34

Pastoral

Answer 34

polygyny

Question 35

Agricultural

Answer 35

monogamy

Question 36

Endogamy

Answer 36

descent theory

Question 37

Exogamy

Answer 37

alliance theory

Question 38

who uses the dowry system

Answer 38

Europe and Asia

Question 39

who uses bride price

Answer 39

Middle East ad Africa

Question 40

kin term example

Answer 40

uncle

Question 41

kin type example

Answer 41

mother’s brother

Question 42

what has no irrigation

Answer 42

horticulture

Question 43

the tribes of Israel are what group

Answer 43

phratries

Question 44

what cover most of earth’s surface

Answer 44

grasslands