Families, Kinship, and Descent

Question 1

Descent groups

Answer 1

group based on belief in shared ancestry

Question 2

matrilateral skewing

Answer 2

a preference for relatives on the mothers side

Question 3

patrilineal

Answer 3

relationship to the father or descent through the male line.

Question 4

matrilineal

Answer 4

of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line.

Question 5

ambilateral

Answer 5

relating to or affecting both sides

Question 6

bilateral

Answer 6

kinship calculated equally through both sexes

Question 7

family of orientation

Answer 7

nuclear family in which one is born and grows up

Question 8

family of procreation

Answer 8

nuclear family established when one marries and has children

Question 9

virilocality

Answer 9

are terms referring to the social system in which a married couple resides with or near the husband’s parents.

Question 10

unoxrilocality

Answer 10

A societal system in which a married couple resides with or near the wife’s parents.

Question 11

neolocality

Answer 11

living situation in which a couple establishes new residence

Question 12

cross cousins

Answer 12

children of a brother and a sister

Question 13

parallel cousins

Answer 13

children of two brothers and two sisters

Question 14

consanguinal kin

Answer 14

related by blood

Question 15

collateral kin

Answer 15

are composed of Ego’s siblings and their descendants and the siblings his/her lineal kin of ascending generations and their descendants as well. They can be pictured as side branches off of the main trunk that links a person to his ancestry and progeny?

Question 16

Eskimo kinship systems

Answer 16

1. lineal (Eskimo; North Americans; !Kung; societies without descent groups)

Question 17

Iroquois kinship systems

Answer 17

2. bifurcate merging (Iroquois; societies with matrilineal or patrilineal descent groups)

Question 18

Hawaiian kinship systems

Answer 18

3. generational (Hawaiian; societies with ambilineal descent groups; some foragers)

Question 19

Sudanese kinship systems

Answer 19

4. bifurcate collateral (Sudanese; Eleshadda; patrilineal societies with descent groups that are flexible in practice and allow marriage with “cousins” on both mother’s and father’s sides

Question 20

unilateral descent

Answer 20

matrilineal or patrilineal descent

Question 21

Clan

Answer 21

unilateral descent group based on stipulated descent

Question 22

affinals

Answer 22

relatives by marriage

Question 23

bifurcate

Answer 23

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Question 24

Bilateral

Answer 24

which means we consider relatives on mother’s side and father’s side to be the same kinds of relatives

Question 25

Descent groups

Answer 25

tend to be in horticulture, agriculture, and pastoral