Kinship

Question 1

What is the least complex kinship terminology system?

Answer 1

Hawaiian

Question 2

What is the most complex kinship terminology system?

Answer 2

Sudanese

Question 3

Incest taboo

Answer 3

a rule prohibiting sexual relations between close kinsmen (father and daughter, mother and son, brother and sister, etc.) and other individuals that are culturally defined as incestuous

Question 4

Consanguineal kin

Answer 4

one’s biological relatives, relatives by birth

Question 5

Affinal kin

Answer 5

one’s relatives by marriage

Question 6

Mismating

Answer 6

relationships in which sex relations are forbidden, but not because of kinship, e.g., adults/minors

Question 7

Status Unchastity

Answer 7

relationships in which either party occupies a status forbidding sex relations, e.g., nuns, monks

Question 8

4 types of descent patterns

Answer 8

patrilineal descent, matrilineal descent, ambilineal descent, bilaterial descent

Question 9

Lineage

Answer 9

set of kin whose members trace descent from a common ancestor through known links),

Question 10

Clan

Answer 10

set of kin who believe themselves to be descended from a common ancestor but cannot specify

Question 11

Phratries

Answer 11

unilineal descent group composed of a number of supposedly related clans

Question 12

Moieties

Answer 12

a whole society divided into two unilineal descent groups

Question 13

Patrilocal post-marital residence pattern

Answer 13

husband’s family

Question 14

Matrilocal post-marital residence pattern

Answer 14

wife’s family

Question 15

Bilocal post-marital residence pattern

Answer 15

either wife or husband’s family

Question 16

Neolocal post-marital residence pattern

Answer 16

new household

Question 17

Avunculocal post-marital residence pattern

Answer 17

husband’s mother’s brother (uncle)

Question 18

The most common post-marital residence pattern is

Answer 18

patrilocal

Question 19

Cross cousins

Answer 19

children of siblings of the opposite sex. One’s cross cousins are the fathers’ sisters’ children and mother’s brother’s children

Question 20

Parallel cousins

Answer 20

children of siblings of the same sex. One’s parallel cousins are the father’s brother’s children and the mother’s sister’s children