The Life Cycle Flashcards
To understand the cultural dimensions of fertility, birth and death. To understand the different types of marriage cross-culturally and how they fit in social life. To understand the social and psychological functions of rites of passage. To describe the more common customs in the world concerning pregnancy, birth, marriage and death.
Which of the following is not a type of transaction involved in the exchange of bridewealth?
a) Groom’s family to groom b) Father of the groom to father of the bride c) Father of the bride to bride d) Father of the bride to family of the bride e) None of the above
c) Father of the bride to bride
Which of the following best characterizes the demographic reproduction levels of Europe and Canada?
a) replacement-level fertility
b) demographic transition fertility
c) below-replacement-level fertility
d) exponential population growth fertility
e) homeostasis fertility
c) below-replacement-level fertility
What factor reduces pronatalism, according to the demographic transition model?
Industrialism
Under which conditions would we expect the highest fertility rates?
a) children's labour highly valued and low child mortality rates b) low economic cost of children and low child mortality rates c) low economic cost of children and high mortality rates d) high economic cost of children and high mortality rates e) children's labour highly valued and high child mortality rates
children’s labour highly valued and high child mortality rates
Under which conditions would we expect the highest fertility rates?
Children’s labour highly valued and high child mortality rates
True or False
Endogamy is an extension of the incest taboo, but with marriage as the focus, not sexual behaviour.
False
A review of ethnographic literature indicates that induced abortion is:
Practiced in virtually all societies
What is infanticide?
It is the death of an infant or child through direct or indirect means.
The suicide of a wife upon the death of her husband practiced in parts of India for centuries is called:
Sati
What is ethnocid?
It is the destruction of a culture without physically killing its people.
A ritual that marks the transition from one stage of life to another is called:
A rite of passage
True or False
Rites of passage can only be non-religious
False
In her study of life in Brazilian shanty towns, anthropologist Sheper Hughes explains that:
Mothers are left to fend for themselves.
They do not attach emotionally to a baby who looks sickly and may not survive and they do not grieve for such children.
Amongst the Navaho, a baby will not be named until it has laughed because:
It is a sign that it is human.
The most important puberty rituals are found in societies where:
Social control of the children is the strongest