Exam 5: Kinship and Family

The custom of polyandry may end among Tibetans living in Nepal because

According to McCurdy in "Family and Kinship in Village India," the term patrilineage refers to

Which one of the following is not true about Tibetan polyandry?

Without ________ it is nearly impossible for a man or a woman in the Fouta Djallon to be considered an adult,let alone a successful and responsible one,by others in the community.

In "Mother's Love: Death Without Weeping," Scheper-Hughes reports that about infants died in Alto do Cruzeiro,Brazil,in 1965.

Migration offers young men the opportunity to earn

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

The parents of a potential bride will arrange a match directly with the groom himself (not with his family) only if he

The typical wedding celebration in the Fouta Djallon lasts for two or three days and includes great quantities of rice,gifts of money or cloth,and

In order to be considered eligible for marriage,a Fouta Djallon girl must have

According to McCurdy in "Family and Kinship in Village India," a major tension in Bhil society occurs over the movement of a woman from her own family to that of her husband at marriage.Which of the following is a way Bhil cultural practices reduce this tension?

A rule of relationship that links people together on the basis of reputed common ancestry is called

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

A bilateral kinship group that is most like a lineage is called a

In "Family and Kinship in Village India," McCurdy argues that arranged marriage functions to

In an epilogue to her article "Mother's Love: Death Without Weeping," Scheper-Hughes argues that the primary cause of the decline in infant mortality on the Alto do Cruzeiro was a result of

According to Scheper-Hughes in "Mother's Love: Death Without Weeping," doctors in the Brazilian town of Bom Jesus de Mata often

When a marriage ends through death or divorce,men and women

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

When it is preferred that a woman marry a man from her own village,we call the arrangement