Kinship and descent

Question 1

consanguineal

Answer 1

related through birth or blood relatives.

Question 2

affinal

Answer 2

related through marriage.

Question 3

Fictive kinship

Answer 3

relationships among individuals who recognize kinship obligations, even though not based on either consanguineal or affinal ties.

Question 4

Descent

Answer 4

stipulate the nature of relationships from on generation to another.

Question 5

Exogamy

Answer 5

requiring marriage outside of ones own social or kinship group.

Question 6

Endogamy

Answer 6

requiring marriage within a specified social or kinship group.

Question 7

Matriclans

Answer 7

descent and inheritance from women of their group.

Question 8

Patriclans

Answer 8

Decent and inheritance from men of their group.

Question 9

Totem

Answer 9

An animal or plant with special connection to the members of its clan,

Question 10

Ambilineal descent

Answer 10

a person chooses to affiliate with through either the male or the female kin group.

Question 11

Bilateral (Bilineal) descent

Answer 11

individuals equally emphasize their mothers kin and their fathers kin.

Question 12

6 residence patterns

Answer 12

Patrilocal, Matrilocal, Ambilocal (Bilocal), Neolocal, Uxorilocal, Virilocal

Question 13

Patrilocal Residence

Answer 13

Pattern of residence after marriage in which the couple lives with or near the husbands relatives.

Question 14

Matrilocal Residence

Answer 14

Pattern for residence after marriage in which the couple lives with or near the wifes family.

Question 15

Bilocal Residence

Answer 15

Patterns of residence after marriage in which the couple alternates between living with the wifes kin and the husbands kin.

Question 16

Neolocal Residents

Answer 16

establish a new, independent household away from their relatives.

Question 17

Uxorilocal Residents

Answer 17

living with or near the wifes parents.

Question 18

Virilocal Residents

Answer 18

living with or near the husbands parents.