Midterm

Question 1

Samoan ideas about childhood require that children be protected from knowing about difficult life experiences such as death and birth

Answer 1

False

Question 2

A major advantage of the alternative type of marriage is that the relationship between the bride and mother in las is satisfactory

Answer 2

True

Question 3

According to Phillipe Aries medieval art until the 12th century did not know childhood

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Among the samoans there is no defined concept of play

Answer 4

True

Question 5

According to aries it was only in the late 19th century that we started to create a world of children as separate from adults

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Despite the fact that manus adults have few animistic thoughts, they are said to be wonderful story tellers

Answer 6

False

Question 7

Efe infants appear stressed by the system of multiple care taking

Answer 7

False

Question 8

Efe mothers always give birth on their own

Answer 8

False

Question 9

Efe mothers do not hold their children immediately after birth as it is believed to harm the infant

Answer 9

True

Question 10

In more than 60 hours of observation, it was observed that 8 out of 10 efe infants were nursed by someone other than the mother

Answer 10

True

Question 11

In the Hsaichicho, alternative types of marriage were more common for children born before 1910 because those children needed access to land controlled by the fathers and grandfathers

Answer 11

True

Question 12

It is common for a manus child to imagine the sun smiling

Answer 12

False

Question 13

Like the !Kung, the efe are the prime example of CCC (continuous care and contact) model for infant care

Answer 13

False

Question 14

Manus children had few animistic thoughts, despite being given intensive religious instruction by adults

Answer 14

False

Question 15

Medieval portraits of baby Jesus show him as a tiny adult

Answer 15

True

Question 16

Men generally said that they rejected the idea of alternative marriage because of the lack of dowry

Answer 16

False

Question 17

Most alternative marriages were of the uxorial type - the couple lived with the brides family

Answer 17

False

Question 18

One samoan child’s name was jelly fish

Answer 18

true

Question 19

One advantage to he alternative type of marriage was tat was accompanied by an elaborate bridal possession and a large wedding

Answer 19

False

Question 20

One explanation for why Efe children are nursed by multiple women that this ensures that the infant has enough calories to survive the local enviornemnt

Answer 20

True

Question 21

Samoan children can decide what name they wish to be called by

Answer 21

True

Question 22

Samoan children live in very well defined and relatively small nuclear families

Answer 22

False

Question 23

The Efe patter of child care has few psychosocial benefits

Answer 23

False

Question 24

The local term for the alternative type of marriage was sang-cue-tie, or pushing them together

Answer 24

True

Question 25

The idea that childhood association tends to preclude sexual desire is not supported by the studies of the Israeli Kibbutz

Answer 25

False

Question 26

When Wolf questioned men about alternative types of marriage they were mostly uncomfortably silent in theirresponses

Answer 26

True

Question 27

When artists began painting more realistic pictures of children they were almost always shown as co mingled with adults

Answer 27

Ture

Question 28

While Samoan girls have many errands to carry out, boys do not

Answer 28

False

Question 29

Wolf argues that alternative types of marriage were rejected by children born after 1910 because they completely rejected the idea of arranged marriages

Answer 29

False

Question 30

Wolf argues that both Freud and Westermarck agree that agree that intimate childhood association tends to preclude sexual desire

Answer 30

False