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Family and Marriage
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
11/02/2009

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Term
M
Definition
mother
Term
F
Definition
Father
Term
S
Definition
Son
Term
D
Definition
Daughter
Term
Z
Definition
Sister
Term
B
Definition
Brother
Term
What shape represents a male?
Definition
a triangle
Term
What shape represents a female?
Definition
a circle
Term
When the sex does not matter what shape is used?
Definition
square
Term
taboo marriages, categories of persons you may not marry
Definition
proscriptions
Term
categories of persons you must marry
Definition
prescriptions
Term
What is an example of a marriage prescription?
Definition
A Yanomami person can only marry a "cross-cousin"
Term
categories of persons you should marry
Definition
preferences
Term
a married couple set up a house on their own
Definition
neolocal
Term
What are two examples of bilateral descent?
Definition
United States and ancient Hawaiian culture
Term
parents and unmarried children living in one household
Definition
nuclear family
Term
In Bedouin society _________ is the ideal model of all power relations.
Definition
family
Term
What sort of marriage is favored by bedouin society? (PPC)
Definition
patrilateral parallel cousin marriage
Term
exercising control over self and others
Definition
power
Term
promise/representation/symbol of power
Definition
authority
Term
How can a nuclear family extend horizontally?
Definition
divorce and remarriage, "serial monogamy"
Term
tracing family history through either the mother's side or the father's side
Definition
cognatic/bilateral kinship
Term
What is an example of polyandry?
Definition
the Todas, the Nyinba people (Himalayas)
Term
Why do the Nyinba people practice fraternal polyandry?
Definition
to limit children born to each family and to keep land from being divided among a lot of sons, causing loss of value
Term
All dowry societies are _________.
Definition
patrilineal
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