Week 7: Kinship

Question 1

Kin group

Answer 1

group of related people who have common interests

Question 2

domestic group

Answer 2

people who live in the same house

Question 3

consanguine

Answer 3

people who are related by birth

Question 4

affines

Answer 4

people who are related by marriage

Question 5

family of orientation

Answer 5

family into which someone is born or adopted

Question 6

family of procreation

Answer 6

family that a person forms through marriage

Question 7

marriage

Answer 7

creates a system for procreation
social connection

Question 8

endogamy

Answer 8

only marrying within your social group

Question 9

exogamy

Answer 9

marrying outside your social group

Question 10

monogamy

Answer 10

having one partner at a time

Question 11

polygamy

Answer 11

having more than one partner at a time

Question 12

polygyny

Answer 12

man marrying more than one wife

Question 13

polyandry

Answer 13

woman marrying more than one man

Question 14

levirate

Answer 14

Forced marriage of a widow to the brother of her deceased husband

Question 15

sororate

Answer 15

Forced marriage of the sister of a deceased or infertile wife

Question 16

bride wealth

Answer 16

wealth given to the bride from the groom’s family

Question 17

dowry

Answer 17

wealth given to the groom from the bride’s family

Question 18

bride service

Answer 18

labour provided to the bride’s family as a service of the groom

Question 19

patrilocal

Answer 19

couples live with or near parents of husband

Question 20

matrilocal

Answer 20

couples live with or near parents of wife

Question 21

bilocal

Answer 21

residence optional between wife or husband’s kin

Question 22

neolocal

Answer 22

couple lives away from both parents

Question 23

avunculocal

Answer 23

couple lives with maternal uncle of husband

Question 24

unilinear descent

Answer 24

tracing lineage through only the father or only the mothers family

Question 25

patrilineal descent

Answer 25

primary kinship through father’s side

Question 26

matrilineal descent

Answer 26

primary kinship through mother’s side

Question 27

bilateral descent

Answer 27

equal importance on both sides

Question 28

cognatic

Answer 28

no formal rule of mother or father

Question 29

parallel cousins

Answer 29

children of your parents’ same sex siblings

Question 30

cross cousins

Answer 30

children of your parents’ opposite sex siblings