L1. KINSHIP, MARRIAGE, & THE HOUSEHOLD

Question 1

What are the three different Kinship Systems?

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• Blood
• Marriage
• Ritual

Question 2

They are lineal kinships.

Answer 2

Parents and Children

Question 3

They are collateral kinships.

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Siblings

Question 4

BLOOD [CONSANGUINEAL FAMILY]

The type of family that one is born into and grows up with, usually as a child of two parents.

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Family of Orientation

Question 5

BLOOD [CONSANGUINEAL FAMILY]

The type of family that one creates through marriage, adoption, and other legal processes, usually as one of the parents

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Family of Procreation

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BLOOD [DESCENT LINE]

Members of a family can either identify to patrilineal or matrilineal lines

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Unilineal

Question 7

BLOOD [DESCENT LINE]

Children only recognize the father’s side as members of their family.

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Patrilineal

Question 8

BLOOD [DESCENT LINE]

Tracing kinship from the female parent’s side

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Matrilineal

Question 9

BLOOD [DESCENT LINE]

People consider both the father’s and mother’s sides as their relatives

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Bilineal

Question 10

BLOOD [DESCENT LINE]

Affiliate with a group of relatives through their fathers and others through their mothers.

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Ambilineal

Question 11

BLOOD [DESCENT LINE]

Refers to societies in which both the patrilineal and matrilineal descent groups are recognized

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Double Unilineal

Question 12

A socially or ritually recognized union or legal contract between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between them, between them and their children, and between them and their in-laws

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Marriage (Affinal Relationship)

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MARRIAGE [AFFINAL RELATIONSHIP]

Prohibits their members to marry outside their circle.

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Endogamy

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MARRIAGE [AFFINAL RELATIONSHIP]

The practice of marrying someone from a different social group

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Exogamy

Question 15

MARRIAGE [AFFINAL RELATIONSHIP]

It is the practice of having only one partner

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Monogamy

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MARRIAGE [AFFINAL RELATIONSHIP]

It is the practice of having more than one marital partner.

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Polygamy

Question 17

MARRIAGE [AFFINAL RELATIONSHIP]: POLYGAMY

2 or more wives

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Polygamous polygyny

Question 18

MARRIAGE [AFFINAL RELATIONSHIP]: POLYGAMY

2 or more husbands

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Polygamous polyandry

Question 19

It is the Spanish term for “co-parenthood,” which is actualized by the godparents after being part of rituals or ceremonies, like baptism, weddings, and religious confirmation

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Compadrazgo

Question 20

• The bond between the parents and the godparents
• The relationship between the child or couple to the godparents

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Ritual / Ceremonial Kinship (Fictive Kinship)

Question 21

It can refer both to the patterns of social relationships themselves, or it can refer to the study of the patterns of social relationships in one or more human cultures

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Kinship

Question 22

It can also refer to a principle by which individuals or groups of individuals are organized into social groups, roles, categories and genealogy by means of kinship terminologies.

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Kinship

Question 23

____________ ___________ or two-sided descent affiliates an individual more or less equally with relatives on his father’s and mother’s sides.

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Bilateral Descent

Question 24

Affiliates an individual through the descent of one sex only, that is, either through males or through females.

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Unilineal Rules

Question 25

Affiliates an individual with kinsmen through the father's or mother's line. Some people in societies that practice this system affiliate with a group of relatives through their fathers and others through their mothers. The individual **can choose which side he wants to affiliate to**.

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Ambilineal (or Cognatic) Rule

Question 26

It refers to societies in which both the patrilineal and matrilineal descent group are recognized. In these societies an individual affiliates for some purposes with a group of patrilineal kinsmen and for other purposes with a group of matrilineal kinsmen

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Double Descent

Question 27

It is a social group whose members talk about common ancestry.

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Descent Group

Question 28

One in which the descent of an individual is reckoned either from the mother's or the father's line of descent. With matrilineal descent individuals belong to their mother's descent group.

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Unilineal Society

Question 29

Includes the mother's brother, who in some societies may pass along inheritance to the sister's children or succession to a sister's son.

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Matrilineal descent

Question 30

Individuals belong to their father's descent group.

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Patrilineal Descent

Question 31

It is a socially or ritually recognized union or legal contract between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between them, between them and their children, and between them and their in-laws

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Marriage

Question 32

When defined broadly, it is considered a cultural universal.

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Marriage

Question 33

**TYPE OF KINSHIPS** Every individual who belong to a nuclear family finds this within the family. There are 8 kinds: husband-wife, father-son, mother-son, father-daughter, mother-daughter, younger brother-elder brother, younger sister-elder sister and brother-sister.

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Primary Kins

Question 34

**TYPE OF KINSHIPS** Outside the nuclear family and the individual can have 33 types of these.

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Secondary Kins

Question 35

**TYPE OF KINSHIPS** This refers to the secondary kins of our primary insofar example wife's brother's son, sister's husband's brother and so on. There are 151 types of this.

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Tertiary Kins

Question 36

**TYPES OF MARRIAGES** It is a form of marriage in which one man marries more than one woman at a given time

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Polygyny

Question 37

**TYPES OF MARRIAGES** It is a type of marriage in which the wives are invariably the sisters. It is often called sororate.

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Sororal polygyny

Question 38

**TYPES OF MARRIAGES** It is a type of marriage in which the wives are not related as sisters.

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Non-sororal polygyny

Question 39

**TYPES OF MARRIAGES** It is the marriage of one woman with more than one man. It is less common than polygyny.

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Polyandry

Question 40

**TYPES OF MARRIAGES** When several brothers share the same wife.

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Fraternal polyandry

Question 41

The practice of being mate, actual or potential to one's husband's brothers. It is prevalent among Todas.

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Levirate

Question 42

**TYPES OF MARRIAGES** In this type the husband need not have any close relationship prior to the marriage. The wife goes to spend some time with each husband. So long as a woman lives with one of her husbands; the others have no claim over her.

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Non - Fraternal polyandry

Question 43

**TYPES OF MARRIAGES** It is a form of marriage in which one man marries one woman .It is the most common and acceptable form of marriage.

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Monogamy

Question 44

**TYPES OF MARRIAGES** In many societies individuals are permitted to marry again often on the death of the first spouse or after divorce but they cannot have more than one spouse at one and the same time.

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Serial Monogamy

Question 45

**TYPES OF MARRIAGES** In this remarriage is not allowed

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Straight Monogamy

Question 46

**TYPES OF MARRIAGES** It means the marriage of two or more women with two or more men. Here the husbands are common husbands and wives are common wives. Children are regarded as the children of the entire group as a whole.

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Group Marriage

Question 47

No society gives absolute freedom to its members to select their partners.

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Rules of Marriage

Question 47

**RULES OF MARRIAGE** It is a rule of marriage in which the life-partners are to be selected within the group. It is marriage within the group and the group may be caste, class, tribe, race, village, religious group etc.

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Endogamy

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**RULES OF MARRIAGE** It is a rule of marriage in which an individual has to marry outside his own group. It prohibits marrying within the group. The so-called blood relatives shall neither have marital connections nor sexual contacts among themselves

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Exogamy

Question 49

**FORMS OF EXOGAMY** The Hindu practice of one marrying outside one's own gotra.

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Gotra Exogamy

Question 50

**FORMS OF EXOGAMY** Those who belong to the same pravara cannot marry among themselves.

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Pravara Exogamy

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**FORMS OF EXOGAMY** Many Indian tribes like Naga, Garo, Munda, etc. have the practice of marrying outside their village.

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Village Exogamy

Question 52

**FORMS OF EXOGAMY** Those who belong to the same panda or sapinda ( common parentage) cannot marry within themselves.

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Pinda Exogamy

Question 53

**RULES OF MARRIAGE** It is the marriage between two equals (status)

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Isogamy

Question 54

**RULES OF MARRIAGE** It is an asymmetric marriage alliance between two individuals belonging to different social statuses. It is of two forms - Hypergamy and Hypogamy.

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Anisogamy

Question 55

**RULES OF MARRIAGE** It is the marriage of a woman with a man of higher Varna or superior caste or family.

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Hypergamy

Question 56

**RULES OF MARRIAGE** It is the marriage of high caste man with a low caste woman.

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Hypogamy

Question 57

**RULES OF MARRIAGE** It is two or more men get married to two or more women.

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Cerogamy

Question 57

**RULES OF MARRIAGE** It is the marriage between selected groups.

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Orthogamy

Question 58

**RULES OF MARRIAGE** It is a marriage under which a man can marry from his own caste or from those below, but a woman can marry only in her caste or above.

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Anuloma Marriage

Question 59

**RULES OF MARRIAGE** It is a marriage of a woman to a man from a lower caste which is not permitted.

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Pratiloma Marriage

Question 62

Type of kinship that is based on ritual or ceremony

Answer 62

Fictive Relationship