Question 1

A rule orelationship thalinks people together on the basis oreputed common ancestry is called

Accepted Answer

A) affinity. 
B) descent. 
C) patrilineality. 
D) social organization. 
A) affinity. 
B) descent. 
C) patrilineality. 
D) social organization.

Question 2

Iis ideal thanewlyweds have children soon after they marry so thathe husband
may establish himselas the head othe household.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

In her article, "Mother's Love: Death WithouWeeping," Nancy Scheper-Hughes argues thamothers in the shantytown oAlto do Cruzeiro learned to accepthe death oa child withougrieving.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

When a man is simultaneously married to two or more women, anthropologists call the arrangement

Accepted Answer

A) polygamy. 
B) polygyny. 
C) polyandry. 
D) exogamy. 
A) polygamy. 
B) polygyny. 
C) polyandry. 
D) exogamy.

Question 5

Descenis a rule orelationship thalinks people together on the basis oreputed common ancestry.Ioften serves to regulate inheritance and the formation okin groups.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

A bilateral kinship group thais moslike a lineage is called a

Accepted Answer

A) family. 
B) clan. 
C) phratry. 
D) ramage. 
A) family. 
B) clan. 
C) phratry. 
D) ramage.

Question 7

According to McCurdy in "Family and Kinship in Village India," in India work in the markeeconomy can weaken kinship systems by

Accepted Answer

A) costing families too much money. 
B) increasing the economic dependence of people on their families and kin groups. 
C) reducing the time people have to devote to family and kin. 
D) connecting one's reputation more to family than to work. 
A) costing families too much money. 
B) increasing the economic dependence of people on their families and kin groups. 
C) reducing the time people have to devote to family and kin. 
D) connecting one's reputation more to family than to work.

Question 8

According to Scheper-Hughes in "Mother's Love: Death WithouWeeping," mothers living in Alto do Cruzeiro in northeastern Brazil have been known to actually hasten the death obabies they felwould nosurvive by failing to feed them properly.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

According to McCurdy in "Family and Kinship in Village India," which is the mosimportanstructural tension associated with marriage in Bhil society?

Accepted Answer

A) the decision about how large the dapa (bride price) will be. 
B) the possibility that young people will refuse to be married. 
C) the shifting of a woman's loyalty, labor, and reproductive potential from her family to her husband's family. 
D) whether wives will inherit from their own or their husband's families. 
A) the decision about how large the dapa (bride price) will be. 
B) the possibility that young people will refuse to be married. 
C) the shifting of a woman's loyalty, labor, and reproductive potential from her family to her husband's family. 
D) whether wives will inherit from their own or their husband's families.

Question 10

According to McCurdy in "Family and Kinship in Village India," the term feminal kin refers to the relatives othe men who have married women oone's own line, or the relatives othe women who have married men oone's own line.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

A kinship group based on a unilineal rule odescenthais localized and has corporate power is called a clan.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

According to Scheper-Hughes in "Mother's Love: Death WithouWeeping," three othe following statements are true abouhow the death opoor babies were treated in Alto do Cruzeiro and Bom Jesus de Mata, Brazil.Which one is not?

Accepted Answer

A) Babies were buried without headstones or markers. 
B) Infant graves were reused for other infant burials later. 
C) Midwives encouraged mothers of dead babies to grieve. 
D) Civil authorities only required a two-paragraph report when a baby died. 
A) Babies were buried without headstones or markers. 
B) Infant graves were reused for other infant burials later. 
C) Midwives encouraged mothers of dead babies to grieve. 
D) Civil authorities only required a two-paragraph report when a baby died.

Question 13

According to McCurdy in "Family and Kinship in Village India," a major tension in Bhil society occurs over the movemenoa woman from her own family to thaoher husband amarriage.Which othe following is a way Bhil cultural practices reduce this tension?

Accepted Answer

A) Grooms ritually storm the bride's house to symbolize that they are taking the woman away from her family. 
B) After the wedding, the family of the bride has no contact with the groom, his new bride, and his extended family for one year. 
C) The bride and groom move to a village where neither family lives to start their own lives. 
D) The bride's family keeps in close, familiar contact with the groom's family, visits often, and checks on their daughter's welfare. 
A) Grooms ritually storm the bride's house to symbolize that they are taking the woman away from her family. 
B) After the wedding, the family of the bride has no contact with the groom, his new bride, and his extended family for one year. 
C) The bride and groom move to a village where neither family lives to start their own lives. 
D) The bride's family keeps in close, familiar contact with the groom's family, visits often, and checks on their daughter's welfare.

Question 14

The Catholic Church's theology oliberation changed the way the Church handled infant deaths.Under this theology,

Accepted Answer

A) a priest accompanied each funeral procession to the cemetery. 
B) mothers were encouraged to believe that a saint had claimed the child. 
C) a municipal gravedigger oversaw the burial without offering any prayers or sign of the cross. 
D) the bells of the parish church rang at each infant's funeral. 
A) a priest accompanied each funeral procession to the cemetery. 
B) mothers were encouraged to believe that a saint had claimed the child. 
C) a municipal gravedigger oversaw the burial without offering any prayers or sign of the cross. 
D) the bells of the parish church rang at each infant's funeral.

Question 15

An older married couple, together with their married sons, their daughters-in-law, and their grandchildren, all living in a single household, is a classic example of

Accepted Answer

A) a nuclear family. 
B) an extended family. 
C) a lineage. 
D) a ramage. 
A) a nuclear family. 
B) an extended family. 
C) a lineage. 
D) a ramage.

Question 16

Ithe people oa village prefer thatheir children marry spouses from other villages, they follow the rule ovillage endogamy.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

According to McCurdy in "Family and Kinship in Village India," when Bhils visiother villages, they usually stay with

Accepted Answer

A) members of their patriclan. 
B) friends, not kin. 
C) members of their extended family. 
D) feminal kin. 
A) members of their patriclan. 
B) friends, not kin. 
C) members of their extended family. 
D) feminal kin.

Question 18

In "Mother's Love: Death WithouWeeping," Scheper-Hughes claims thathe installation opiped, treated water to all homes in the shantytown contributed mosto the increased survival oinfants in Bom Jesus de Mata.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

In "Polyandry: When Brothers Take a Wife," Goldstein argues thathe Tibetan practice opolyandry is analogous to the practice oprimogeniture in nineteenth-century England.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

The parents oa potential bride will arrange a match directly with the groom himsel(nowith his family) only ihe

Accepted Answer

A) is already married, owns his own home, and is well established. 
B) is not yet married, owns his own home, and is well established. 
C) is not related to the bride and is not yet married. 
D) does not plan to leave the Fouta Djallon to earn money. 
A) is already married, owns his own home, and is well established. 
B) is not yet married, owns his own home, and is well established. 
C) is not related to the bride and is not yet married. 
D) does not plan to leave the Fouta Djallon to earn money.

A rule orelationship thalinks people together on the basis oreputed common ancestry is called

Iis ideal thanewlyweds have children soon after they marry so thathe husband may establish himselas the head othe household.

In her article, "Mother's Love: Death WithouWeeping," Nancy Scheper-Hughes argues thamothers in the shantytown oAlto do Cruzeiro learned to accepthe death oa child withougrieving.

When a man is simultaneously married to two or more women, anthropologists call the arrangement

Descenis a rule orelationship thalinks people together on the basis oreputed common ancestry.Ioften serves to regulate inheritance and the formation okin groups.

A bilateral kinship group thais moslike a lineage is called a

According to McCurdy in "Family and Kinship in Village India," in India work in the markeeconomy can weaken kinship systems by

According to Scheper-Hughes in "Mother's Love: Death WithouWeeping," mothers living in Alto do Cruzeiro in northeastern Brazil have been known to actually hasten the death obabies they felwould nosurvive by failing to feed them properly.

According to McCurdy in "Family and Kinship in Village India," which is the mosimportanstructural tension associated with marriage in Bhil society?

According to McCurdy in "Family and Kinship in Village India," the term feminal kin refers to the relatives othe men who have married women oone's own line, or the relatives othe women who have married men oone's own line.

A kinship group based on a unilineal rule odescenthais localized and has corporate power is called a clan.

According to Scheper-Hughes in "Mother's Love: Death WithouWeeping," three othe following statements are true abouhow the death opoor babies were treated in Alto do Cruzeiro and Bom Jesus de Mata, Brazil.Which one is not?

According to McCurdy in "Family and Kinship in Village India," a major tension in Bhil society occurs over the movemenoa woman from her own family to thaoher husband amarriage.Which othe following is a way Bhil cultural practices reduce this tension?

The Catholic Church's theology oliberation changed the way the Church handled infant deaths.Under this theology,

An older married couple, together with their married sons, their daughters-in-law, and their grandchildren, all living in a single household, is a classic example of

Ithe people oa village prefer thatheir children marry spouses from other villages, they follow the rule ovillage endogamy.

According to McCurdy in "Family and Kinship in Village India," when Bhils visiother villages, they usually stay with

In "Mother's Love: Death WithouWeeping," Scheper-Hughes claims thathe installation opiped, treated water to all homes in the shantytown contributed mosto the increased survival oinfants in Bom Jesus de Mata.

In "Polyandry: When Brothers Take a Wife," Goldstein argues thathe Tibetan practice opolyandry is analogous to the practice oprimogeniture in nineteenth-century England.

The parents oa potential bride will arrange a match directly with the groom himsel(nowith his family) only ihe

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A rule orelationship thalinks people together on the basis oreputed common ancestry is called

Iis ideal thanewlyweds have children soon after they marry so thathe husband may establish himselas the head othe household.

In her article, "Mother's Love: Death WithouWeeping," Nancy Scheper-Hughes argues thamothers in the shantytown oAlto do Cruzeiro learned to accepthe death oa child withougrieving.

When a man is simultaneously married to two or more women, anthropologists call the arrangement

Descenis a rule orelationship thalinks people together on the basis oreputed common ancestry.Ioften serves to regulate inheritance and the formation okin groups.

A bilateral kinship group thais moslike a lineage is called a

According to McCurdy in "Family and Kinship in Village India," in India work in the markeeconomy can weaken kinship systems by

According to Scheper-Hughes in "Mother's Love: Death WithouWeeping," mothers living in Alto do Cruzeiro in northeastern Brazil have been known to actually hasten the death obabies they felwould nosurvive by failing to feed them properly.

According to McCurdy in "Family and Kinship in Village India," which is the mosimportanstructural tension associated with marriage in Bhil society?

According to McCurdy in "Family and Kinship in Village India," the term feminal kin refers to the relatives othe men who have married women oone's own line, or the relatives othe women who have married men oone's own line.

A kinship group based on a unilineal rule odescenthais localized and has corporate power is called a clan.

According to Scheper-Hughes in "Mother's Love: Death WithouWeeping," three othe following statements are true abouhow the death opoor babies were treated in Alto do Cruzeiro and Bom Jesus de Mata, Brazil.Which one is not?

According to McCurdy in "Family and Kinship in Village India," a major tension in Bhil society occurs over the movemenoa woman from her own family to thaoher husband amarriage.Which othe following is a way Bhil cultural practices reduce this tension?

The Catholic Church's theology oliberation changed the way the Church handled infant deaths.Under this theology,

An older married couple, together with their married sons, their daughters-in-law, and their grandchildren, all living in a single household, is a classic example of

Ithe people oa village prefer thatheir children marry spouses from other villages, they follow the rule ovillage endogamy.

According to McCurdy in "Family and Kinship in Village India," when Bhils visiother villages, they usually stay with

In "Mother's Love: Death WithouWeeping," Scheper-Hughes claims thathe installation opiped, treated water to all homes in the shantytown contributed mosto the increased survival oinfants in Bom Jesus de Mata.

In "Polyandry: When Brothers Take a Wife," Goldstein argues thathe Tibetan practice opolyandry is analogous to the practice oprimogeniture in nineteenth-century England.

The parents oa potential bride will arrange a match directly with the groom himsel(nowith his family) only ihe

Culture and Ethnography

Language and Communication

Ecology and Subsistence

Economic Systems

Roles and Inequality

Law and Politics

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