Kinship, Marriage and the Family Flashcards
To understand the significance of kinship and descent in pre-industrial societies. To understand the significance of descent for the organization of social, economic and political life in these societies. To understand why anthropologists have attached great importance to the study of kinship. To understand the social changes that affect kinship terminology and relationships, and more specifically, the transformation of families.
A record of a person’s relatives constructed beginning with the earliest ancestors and working down to the present is known as:
A genealogy
Which kinship naming system best typifies Euro-Canadian kinship naming?
Inuit (“Eskimo”)
Residence with or near the husband’s mother’s brother corresponds to which residence rules?
Avunculocal
Marriage between status equals is called:
Isogamy
Children of either one’s father’s brother or one’s mother’s sister are:
Parallel cousins
Labour given by the groom to the parents of the bride is called:
Brideservice
Marriage of one husband with more than one wife is called:
Polygyny
A co-residential group that comprises more than one parent-child unit is called a(n):
Extended household
A household pattern in which a woman (or women) is the central, stable, domestic figure around which other members cluster is called:
Matrifocality
Situations in which people who want to marry cannot do so for one reason or another are known as:
Marriage crises
Family members related by marriage are called:
Affines
____________ is the pattern of descent in which rights and obligations are passed in the female line.
Matrilineality
In matrilineal societies, fatherhood has a diminished role in kinship.
True
The kinship principle in which a child belongs to the lineages of both parents is called:
Bilateral
English kinship terminology follows which type?
Eskimo
