Social Relationships

Question 1

Marriage

Answer 1

Intimate relations between spouses that creates culturally recognized in-law kin relations

Question 2

Affinal

Answer 2

relationships based on affinity (marriage)

Question 3

Consanguineal

Answer 3

Relationships based blood (descent)

Question 4

Prescriptive marriage

Answer 4

Certain kinds of marriage that are promoted to ensure reproduction of a groups own memberships or alliances

Question 5

Fathers Sisters Daughter

Answer 5

Direct exchange marriage where the descent line that has received a wife in one generation gives a wife back in the next generation

Question 6

Mothers Brothers Daughter

Answer 6

Asymmetrical exchange marriage where men always find wives in the descent line where their mother came from

Question 7

Bridewealth

Answer 7

The transfer of certain symbolical important goods from the family of the groom to the family of the bride representing compensation to the wife’s lineage for the loss of her labour and for child-bearing capabilities

Question 8

Bride Service

Answer 8

A form of marriage exchange in which the groom works for his parents-in-laws for a certain period of time before returning home with the bride

Question 9

Groomprice

Answer 9

The transfer of certain symbolically important goods form the family of the bride to the family of the groom representing compensation to the groom’s lineage for the loss of his labour

Question 10

Dowry

Answer 10

The transfer of wealth from parents to their child (usually a daughter) at the time of the child’s marriage

Question 11

Four main marriage patterns

Answer 11

1. Incest Taboo
2. Endogamy/Exogamy
3. Monogamy/Polygamy

Question 12

Incest Taboo

Answer 12

In all societies some kin are off limits as spouses/sexual partners

Question 13

Endogamy

Answer 13

Marriage within a defined social group

Question 14

Exogamy

Answer 14

Marriage outside a defined social group

Question 15

Monogamy

Answer 15

A marriage pattern in which a person may be married to only one person at a time

Question 16

Polygamy

Answer 16

A marriage pattern in which a person may be married to more than one person at a time

Question 17

Polygyny

Answer 17

Marriage of a man to more than one woman

Question 18

Polyandry

Answer 18

Marriage of a woman to more than one man

Question 19

6 Residence Patterns

Answer 19

1. Neolocal
2. Patrilocal
3. Matrilocal
4. Avunulocal
5. Ambilocal
6. Duolocal

Question 20

Neolocal

Answer 20

In a place of their own choosing

Question 21

Patrilocal

Answer 21

With or near the husbands fathers family

Question 22

Matrilocal

Answer 22

With or near the family in which the wife was raised

Question 23

Avunculocal

Answer 23

With or near the husbands mothers brother

Question 24

Ambilocal

Answer 24

First with the family of one spouse and then the other family: eventually choose which family the want to affiliate with permanently

Question 25

Duolocal

Answer 25

Each partner lives with their own lineage even after marriage

Question 26

Diagrams

Answer 26

Systematic way of presenting data on the kinship relations of an individual called ego

Question 27

Geneology

Answer 27

Diagram tracing descent of ego to a common earliest ancestor

Question 28

Lineages

Answer 28

A descent group composed of consanguineal members, or blood relatives, who believe they can trace their descent from know ancestors

Question 29

Bilateral Descent

Answer 29

The principle that a descent group is formed by people who believe they are related to each other by connections made through their mothers and fathers equally

Question 30

Unilateral Descent

Answer 30

The principle that a descendant group is formed by people who believe they are related to each other by links made through one parent only

Question 31

Prototype Kinship Patterns (6)

Answer 31

1. Iroquois
2. Eskimo
3. Hawaiian
4. Crow
5. Omaha
6. Sudanese

Question 32

Eskimo

Answer 32

Bilineal

Emphasis on the nuclear family

Question 33

Iroquois

Answer 33

Unilateral
Different terms for relatives of the mothers and fathers sides
Distinction between cross and parallel cousins

Question 34

Hawaiian

Answer 34

Generational system

Simplest - Difference are distinguished by generation and gender