Question 1

For anthropologists, a nuclear family is made up of

Accepted Answer

A)  A married couple. 
B)  A married couple and their children. 
C)  The line of people who are directly related to one another: grandparents, parents, and children. 
D)  A bilateral kindred. 
A)  A married couple. 
B)  A married couple and their children. 
C)  The line of people who are directly related to one another: grandparents, parents, and children. 
D)  A bilateral kindred.

Question 2

Compare matrilineality with patrilineality. How are they similar? How are they different? Give examples.

Accepted Answer

Matrilineality and patrilineality are bo

Question 3

The expression "patrilineal puzzle" refers to which of the following situations?

Accepted Answer

A)  Men live with their mother's brothers, but inherit from their fathers. 
B)  Women who are not lineage members produce the children who perpetuate the lineage. 
C)  Men who are not lineage members produce the children who perpetuate the lineage. 
D)  Men inherit from their mother's brothers, but live with their fathers. 
A)  Men live with their mother's brothers, but inherit from their fathers. 
B)  Women who are not lineage members produce the children who perpetuate the lineage. 
C)  Men who are not lineage members produce the children who perpetuate the lineage. 
D)  Men inherit from their mother's brothers, but live with their fathers.

Question 4

The Chilean kinship term tía refers to

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A)  A person's mother's sister or father's sister. 
B)  Female friends of a child's parents. 
C)  Any older woman. 
D)  Both a and b 
A)  A person's mother's sister or father's sister. 
B)  Female friends of a child's parents. 
C)  Any older woman. 
D)  Both a and b

Question 5

A descent group formed by people who can specify their connections to one another through parent-child links to a common ancestor is a

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A)  Lineage. 
B)  Clan. 
C)  Tribe. 
D)  Moiety. 
A)  Lineage. 
B)  Clan. 
C)  Tribe. 
D)  Moiety.

Question 6

The distinction made between kin who are believed to be in a direct line and those who are off to one side is called

Accepted Answer

A)  Collaterality. 
B)  Bifurcation. 
C)  Affinity. 
D)  Consanguinity. 
A)  Collaterality. 
B)  Bifurcation. 
C)  Affinity. 
D)  Consanguinity.

Question 7

According to Janet Dolgin, all the custody cases she reviewed were alike in that they awarded custody to

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A)  Those parties whose living arrangements came closest to that of the traditional U.S. middle-class, two-parent family. 
B)  Both biological parents. 
C)  The biological mother instead of the biological father. 
D)  The parent, biological or adoptive, who had actually taken care of the child. 
A)  Those parties whose living arrangements came closest to that of the traditional U.S. middle-class, two-parent family. 
B)  Both biological parents. 
C)  The biological mother instead of the biological father. 
D)  The parent, biological or adoptive, who had actually taken care of the child.

Question 8

Kinship relationships derived from mating are called

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A)  Descent. 
B)  Marriage. 
C)  Adoption. 
D)  Matriliny. 
A)  Descent. 
B)  Marriage. 
C)  Adoption. 
D)  Matriliny.

Question 9

The socially recognized ties that connect people in a variety of different ways are called

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A)  Affinity. 
B)  Friendship. 
C)  Kinship. 
D)  Relatedness. 
A)  Affinity. 
B)  Friendship. 
C)  Kinship. 
D)  Relatedness.

Question 10

In Eugenia Georges's study, what was the most typical way in which the migration cycle from the Dominican Republic to New York ended?

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A)  The married couple in New York broke off ties to their families in the Dominican Republic and never returned. 
B)  Husbands brought wives and children to live with them in New York, where they all settled permanently. 
C)  Husbands occasionally returned to the Dominican Republic, but wives and children usually refused to return once they were settled in New York. 
D)  After several years in the United States, the married couple who initiated the migration cycle would take their savings and return home to the Dominican Republic. 
A)  The married couple in New York broke off ties to their families in the Dominican Republic and never returned. 
B)  Husbands brought wives and children to live with them in New York, where they all settled permanently. 
C)  Husbands occasionally returned to the Dominican Republic, but wives and children usually refused to return once they were settled in New York. 
D)  After several years in the United States, the married couple who initiated the migration cycle would take their savings and return home to the Dominican Republic.

Question 11

Which of the following is NOT a way to become a "younger brother" among the Iñupiaq?

Accepted Answer

A)  Having an older sibling whose mother is the same as yours. 
B)  Being adopted by someone with a child older than you are. 
C)  Having a parent who once had an acknowledged sexual relationship with a parent of someone who is older than you are. 
D)  Having eaten food prepared at the same fire as someone who is older than you are. 
A)  Having an older sibling whose mother is the same as yours. 
B)  Being adopted by someone with a child older than you are. 
C)  Having a parent who once had an acknowledged sexual relationship with a parent of someone who is older than you are. 
D)  Having eaten food prepared at the same fire as someone who is older than you are.

Question 12

According to Benedict Anderson, "imagined communities" are

Accepted Answer

A)  Groups whose members' knowledge of one another does not come from regular face-to-face interactions but is based on shared experiences with national institutions such as schools and government bureaucracies. 
B)  All communities larger than primordial villages of face-to-face contact (and perhaps even these). 
C)  Social groups that have existed since the beginning of time. 
D)  Both a and b 
A)  Groups whose members' knowledge of one another does not come from regular face-to-face interactions but is based on shared experiences with national institutions such as schools and government bureaucracies. 
B)  All communities larger than primordial villages of face-to-face contact (and perhaps even these). 
C)  Social groups that have existed since the beginning of time. 
D)  Both a and b

Question 13

"Daughter" and "son" are examples of

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A)  Ascribed statuses. 
B)  Achieved statuses. 
C)  Contractual statuses. 
D)  Innate statuses. 
A)  Ascribed statuses. 
B)  Achieved statuses. 
C)  Contractual statuses. 
D)  Innate statuses.

Question 14

Which of the following sets of people belong to the same patrilineage?

Accepted Answer

A)  A father-his son-his son's daughter. 
B)  A woman-her brother-her mother. 
C)  A man-his father's sister-his father's sister's son. 
D)  A woman-her father-her son. 
A)  A father-his son-his son's daughter. 
B)  A woman-her brother-her mother. 
C)  A man-his father's sister-his father's sister's son. 
D)  A woman-her father-her son.

Question 15

Which of the following statements describes polygynous Mende households?

Accepted Answer

A)  Wives are ranked by order of marriage. 
B)  Mende men and women agree that wives from high-status families outrank wives from lower-status families. 
C)  Serious problems arise if a husband shows favoritism toward a wife higher in the marriage ranking and neglects a wife from a high-status family. 
D)  Both b and c are true. 
A)  Wives are ranked by order of marriage. 
B)  Mende men and women agree that wives from high-status families outrank wives from lower-status families. 
C)  Serious problems arise if a husband shows favoritism toward a wife higher in the marriage ranking and neglects a wife from a high-status family. 
D)  Both b and c are true.

Question 16

Which of the following statements describes the relationship of Mende women toward their children?

Accepted Answer

A)  A Mende woman's children will inherit from her brother, so she closely monitors how well her brother looks out for her children. 
B)  A Mende woman's principal claim to her husband's land or cash comes through her children. 
C)  Mende women have access to their own sources of wealth apart from husband and children. 
D)  Traditional Mende inheritance rules ordinarily leave widows well enough off to live comfortably on their own, without depending on other kin. 
A)  A Mende woman's children will inherit from her brother, so she closely monitors how well her brother looks out for her children. 
B)  A Mende woman's principal claim to her husband's land or cash comes through her children. 
C)  Mende women have access to their own sources of wealth apart from husband and children. 
D)  Traditional Mende inheritance rules ordinarily leave widows well enough off to live comfortably on their own, without depending on other kin.

Question 17

Discuss what is meant by the expression "Cattle beget children."

Accepted Answer

The expression "Cattle beget children" i

Question 18

The study of kinship became important in anthropology because

Accepted Answer

A)  Kinship could be reduced to biology and thus could make cross-cultural comparison objective. 
B)  It showed how people could maintain social order without the institution of the state. 
C)  It enabled anthropologists to explain why some societies had remained primitive and others had advanced. 
D)  Kinship no longer existed in Western societies. 
A)  Kinship could be reduced to biology and thus could make cross-cultural comparison objective. 
B)  It showed how people could maintain social order without the institution of the state. 
C)  It enabled anthropologists to explain why some societies had remained primitive and others had advanced. 
D)  Kinship no longer existed in Western societies.

Question 19

To say that kinship among the Iñupiat is based on agency means that

Accepted Answer

A)  People who do the parenting are the parents. 
B)  Only people in a direct consanguineal line are related to one another. 
C)  Biological relatedness takes precedence over all other forms of relatedness. 
D)  No one is really related to anyone else. 
A)  People who do the parenting are the parents. 
B)  Only people in a direct consanguineal line are related to one another. 
C)  Biological relatedness takes precedence over all other forms of relatedness. 
D)  No one is really related to anyone else.

Question 20

What happens if a male Ego lives in a society practicing asymmetrical exchange marriage and his mother's brother does not have a daughter?

Accepted Answer

A)  He remains unmarried. 
B)  His mother's brother is forced to adopt a daughter of marriageable age. 
C)  He is forced to emigrate. 
D)  He must marry an appropriate woman born to a man of his mother's lineage. 
A)  He remains unmarried. 
B)  His mother's brother is forced to adopt a daughter of marriageable age. 
C)  He is forced to emigrate. 
D)  He must marry an appropriate woman born to a man of his mother's lineage.

For anthropologists, a nuclear family is made up of

Compare matrilineality with patrilineality. How are they similar? How are they different? Give examples.

The expression "patrilineal puzzle" refers to which of the following situations?

The Chilean kinship term tía refers to

A descent group formed by people who can specify their connections to one another through parent-child links to a common ancestor is a

The distinction made between kin who are believed to be in a direct line and those who are off to one side is called

According to Janet Dolgin, all the custody cases she reviewed were alike in that they awarded custody to

Kinship relationships derived from mating are called

The socially recognized ties that connect people in a variety of different ways are called

In Eugenia Georges's study, what was the most typical way in which the migration cycle from the Dominican Republic to New York ended?

Which of the following is NOT a way to become a "younger brother" among the Iñupiaq?

According to Benedict Anderson, "imagined communities" are

"Daughter" and "son" are examples of

Which of the following sets of people belong to the same patrilineage?

Which of the following statements describes polygynous Mende households?

Which of the following statements describes the relationship of Mende women toward their children?

Discuss what is meant by the expression "Cattle beget children."

The study of kinship became important in anthropology because

To say that kinship among the Iñupiat is based on agency means that

What happens if a male Ego lives in a society practicing asymmetrical exchange marriage and his mother's brother does not have a daughter?

What Is the Anthropological Perspective

Why Is the Concept of Culture Important

What Is Ethnographic Fieldwork

How Has Anthropological Thinking About Cultural Diversity Changed Over Time

What Is Human Language

How Do We Make Meaning

What Can Anthropology Tell Us About Religion and World-View

How Are Culture and Power Connected

How Do People Make a Living

What Can Anthropology Teach Us About Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

What Can Anthropology Tell Us About Social Inequality

What Can Anthropology Tell Us About Globalization

How Is Anthropology Applied in the Field of Medicine

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Exam 11: Where Do Our Relatives Come From and Why Do They Matter

For anthropologists, a nuclear family is made up of

Compare matrilineality with patrilineality. How are they similar? How are they different? Give examples.

The expression "patrilineal puzzle" refers to which of the following situations?

The Chilean kinship term tía refers to

A descent group formed by people who can specify their connections to one another through parent-child links to a common ancestor is a

The distinction made between kin who are believed to be in a direct line and those who are off to one side is called

According to Janet Dolgin, all the custody cases she reviewed were alike in that they awarded custody to

Kinship relationships derived from mating are called

The socially recognized ties that connect people in a variety of different ways are called

In Eugenia Georges's study, what was the most typical way in which the migration cycle from the Dominican Republic to New York ended?

Which of the following is NOT a way to become a "younger brother" among the Iñupiaq?

According to Benedict Anderson, "imagined communities" are

"Daughter" and "son" are examples of

Which of the following sets of people belong to the same patrilineage?

Which of the following statements describes polygynous Mende households?

Which of the following statements describes the relationship of Mende women toward their children?

Discuss what is meant by the expression "Cattle beget children."

The study of kinship became important in anthropology because

To say that kinship among the Iñupiat is based on agency means that

What happens if a male Ego lives in a society practicing asymmetrical exchange marriage and his mother's brother does not have a daughter?

What Is the Anthropological Perspective

Why Is the Concept of Culture Important

What Is Ethnographic Fieldwork

How Has Anthropological Thinking About Cultural Diversity Changed Over Time

What Is Human Language

How Do We Make Meaning

What Can Anthropology Tell Us About Religion and World-View

How Are Culture and Power Connected

How Do People Make a Living

What Can Anthropology Teach Us About Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

What Can Anthropology Tell Us About Social Inequality

What Can Anthropology Tell Us About Globalization

How Is Anthropology Applied in the Field of Medicine

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