kinship terminology

Question 1

bilocal residence

Answer 1

married couple living with or near parents

Question 2

cross cousins

Answer 2

the child of opposite sex siblings

Question 3

cross cousin marriage

Answer 3

marriage between father’s sister’s chilld and mother’s brother’s child

Question 4

patrilineal descent

Answer 4

descent from an ancestor down through series of male links

Question 5

matrilineal descent

Answer 5

descent from an ancestor down through series of female links

Question 6

ego

Answer 6

point taken in describing a relationship

Question 7

endogamy

Answer 7

marriage within a group

Question 8

exogamy

Answer 8

marriage outside the group

Question 9

patrilocal

Answer 9

female moves to husband’s household after marriage

Question 10

matrilocal

Answer 10

male moves to wife’s household after marriage

Question 11

neolocal

Answer 11

single separate household families

Question 12

type of kinship: consanguineous

Answer 12

blood related

Question 13

ttype of kinship: affinial

Answer 13

through marriage/alliance

Question 14

generalised exchange

Answer 14

marriage exchange where women circulate within groups

Question 15

levirate

Answer 15

dead man’s brother succeeds to his status as husband by marrying his widow

Question 16

matriarchy

Answer 16

rule of the family by the mother

Question 17

moiety

Answer 17

devision of a society into two social categories

Question 18

monogamy

Answer 18

marriage limited to one spouse at a time

Question 19

polygamy

Answer 19

plural marriage at the same time

Question 20

type of polygamy: polygny

Answer 20

one male and two or more females

Question 21

type of polygamy: polyandry

Answer 21

one female married to two or more males

Question 22

restricted exchange

Answer 22

marriage exchange restricted to involve two groups exchanging directly

Question 23

relatedness

Answer 23

any kind of relation

Question 24

Bilateral

Answer 24

kinship traced through both father and mother