W3

Question 1

What are cross cousins?

Answer 1

Mother’s brother’s children (matrilineal) or father’s sister’s children (patrilineal)

Question 2

What are parallel cousins?

Answer 2

Father’s brother’s children or mother’s sister’s children.

Question 3

What are some explanations for incest taboo?

Answer 3

To form alliance, to continue the marriage between groups.

Question 4

What is E.B Taylors theory?

Answer 4

To form alliance (marrying out or being killed)

Question 5

What is exogamy?

Answer 5

Marriage outside the group

Question 6

What is a levirate?

Answer 6

Man marries the widow of his brother

Question 7

What is a sororate?

Answer 7

Man marries the unwed sister of his deceased wife

Question 8

What is the system of moiety (dual organisation)

Answer 8

A form of social organisation in which the society is divided into two complentary parts. They can be marrying parts of each other or they can perform certain social tasks for each other.

Question 9

Who coined the alliance theory?

Answer 9

Levi-Strauss

Question 10

What does the alliance theory help explain? (4 things)

Answer 10

Cross-cousin marriage - dual organisation (system of moiety) - incest taboo (rules of exogamy) - marriage by exchange