Week 9 - Families, kinship, and marriage - Test 2

Question 1

What is family?

Answer 1

a group of people who are considered to be related in some way, for example, by ‘blood’ (common ancestry or descent) or marriage

Question 2

What is Kinship?

Answer 2

Central organizing principle of societies. (Ju/’hoansi)

Question 3

What is nuclear family?

Answer 3

Family group consistening of parents and their children.

Question 4

What is extended family?

Answer 4

An expanded household that includes three or more generations.

Question 5

What is descent groups?

Answer 5

For ‘appropriate’ social relationships
For resource management
For marriage

Question 6

What is patriarchy?

Answer 6

A political system ruled by men in which women have inferior social and political status, including basic human rights.

Question 7

What is matriarchy?

Answer 7

a system of society or government ruled by women

Question 8

What is patrilinear?

Answer 8

The kinship line passes only through the males, which means that a woman belongs to her father’s line, and that her children, boys and girls, belong to her husband’s line.

Question 9

What is matrilinear?

Answer 9

descent traced only through females

Question 10

What is bilaterial descent?

Answer 10

a system of family lineage in which the relatives on the mother’s side and father’s side are equally important for emotional ties or for transfer of property or wealth.

Question 11

What is patrilocal?

Answer 11

relating to a pattern of marriage in which the couple settles in the husband’s home or community:

Question 12

What is matrilocal?

Answer 12

denoting a custom in marriage whereby the husband goes to live with the wife’s community.

Question 13

What is neolocal?

Answer 13

post maritial residence in which a newly married couple resides separately from both husband and wifes household

Question 14

What is arranged marriages?

Answer 14

a marriage planned and agreed by the families or guardians of the couple concerned rather than by the couple themselves.

Question 15

What is endogamy?

Answer 15

the custom of marrying only within the limits of a local community, clan, or tribe.

Question 16

What is exogamy?

Answer 16

he custom of marrying outside a community, clan, or tribe.

Question 17

What is monogamy?

Answer 17

Only one spouse

Question 18

What is polygamy?

Answer 18

More then one spouse

Question 19

What characterizes the traditional chinese family?

Answer 19

Patriarchal
patrilocal
Patrilineal rule of descent
Extended family (several generations living at the same location)
Communist policies (1950s) and one-child policy (1979)
Urbanization and cultural changes: a process of family isolation (cultural model of the nuclear family)

Question 20

What characterizes the traditional Ju/’ Hoansi family? (read up on chapter 5 of Lee)

Answer 20

band, flexibility, bilateral descent

principal genius stroke: the name relationship.

Limited number of personal names in use (only 35 mens names and 32 womens names) . Names are inherited from ancestors according to a fairly strict set of rules. Every child must be named for somebody. A first-born son is supposed to be named after his father’s father, and the first-born daughter after her father’s mother. Second-born children are supposed to be named after the mother’s father and mother’s mother, and additional children are to be named after father’s brothers and sisters and mother’s brothers and sisters, in that order. More dist

The Ju/′hoansi commonly live in camps that number from 10 to 30 indivi- duals, but the composition of these camps changes from month to month and from day to day. In essence, a Ju/′hoan camp consists of relatives, friends, and in-laws who have found that they can live and work well together. Under this flexible principle, brothers may be united or divided; fathers and sons may live together or apart. Further, during his or her lifetime a Ju/′hoan may live at many waterholes with many different groups. Given their flexible lifestyle, and lac

Question 21

What characterizes the traditional American family?

Question 22

Describe how these family patterns have changed as a result of globalization, industrialization, political developments (one child policy child in china etc)

Question 23

Getting married is a collective process, describe the central importance of linage (endogamous/exogamous), the negotation process, the role of the extended family mamebers and the different types of marriages.

Question 24

The anthropoligical definition of family and kin groups

Question 25

What is a lineage?

Answer 25

group o findividuals tracing descent from a common ancestor

Question 26

What is a clan?

Answer 26

a group of close-knit and interrelated families

Question 27

Explain the different kinds of descents and their implications for kin relationships for those of Gabero in North Mali?