Exam 13: Kinship and Other Methods of Grouping

The Maori are known as great:

The Maori were colonized by the:

The Chinese Han, the dominant ethnic group in the country, practice what form of descent?

In all oral tradition societies, elders are considered to be the wise ones in the group.

_______________ descent is tracing descent through the male line.

Age-grades were established universally by numerical age of the individual.

Kinship systems have been a central element within the history of anthropology. Why do you think anthropologists have focused so much attention on how people are related to each other within a society and how group affiliations are formed?

Which of the following is considered a cross cousin to Ego?

Today, those who claim Maori ancestry number approximately:

When a society is divided into two large descent groups, each group is called a:

The Hindu caste system is based on the sacred text known as:

The gen-Xers (born between 1961-1980) are classified as a(n):

What are the advantages of lineage exogamy?

What arguments do the authors offer on why Scottish clans have continued to have relevance in industrial and postindustrial societies?

Which of the following factors affect a person's position in society all over the world (universally)?

What are the advantages of structuring a society with age grades?

Which of the following establishes descent group membership exclusively through the male or the female line?

When two or more kin are merged under the same term those individuals have more or less the same rights and obligations.

Associations that result from an act of joining and are based on sharing particular activities, objectives, values or beliefs are called _______________ _______________.

Any kinship group with a membership lineally descending from a real historical or fictional common ancestor is called a: