Cultural Anthropology Chapter 9 Exam Questions and Answers 100% Correct
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Cultural Anthropology Chapter 9 Exam Questions and Answers 100% Correct
A society in which the wife's sister replaces her as wife if she dies in her marriage is practicing the custom of:
a. levirate.
b. sororate.
c. bilaterate.
d. matrilineality.
e. sororal polyandry. - Answers b. sororate...
Cultural Anthropology Chapter 9 Exam Questions and Answers 100% Correct
A society in which the wife's sister replaces her as wife if she dies in her marriage is practicing the
custom of:
a. levirate.
b. sororate.
c. bilaterate.
d. matrilineality.
e. sororal polyandry. - Answers b. sororate
A(n) __________ family is organized around the female line.
a. ambilineal
b. patrilineal
c. matrilineal
d. bilineal
e. kindred - Answers c. matrilineal
All of the following are principles for classifying kin EXCEPT:
a. sex of linking relative.
b. lineality vs. collaterality.
c. gender.
d. race.
e. relative age. - Answers d. race
Alliance theory argues that incest taboos are universal because:
a. they decrease the amount of genetic harmfulness and reduce the number of weak offspring.
b. they decrease the potential for family conflict and disruption of role relationships.
c. they force people to create wider social bonds that are useful in group survival.
d. all societies have the same rules of exogamy and endogamy.
, e. they increase the number of marriageable pairs within a society and allow populations to grow at a
higher rate. - Answers c. they force people to create wider social bonds that are useful in group survival
Although lay people refer to plural marriage as "polygamy" in the United States, when a man can have
more than one spouse it is called:
a. polyandry.
b. polygyny.
c. polygandry.
d. polysororate.
e. plurality. - Answers b. Polygyny
Blood ties between people are called:
a. consanguineal ties.
b. sororal ties.
c. affinal ties.
d. familial ties.
e. patrilineal ties. - Answers a. consanguineal ties
Bride service is found most commonly among which type of society?
Select one:
a. Agricultural
b. Horticultural
c. Foraging
d. Industrial
e. Pastoral - Answers c. Foraging
How has the American family structure grown more diverse over time?
a. The number of multigenerational families has substantially increased.
b. Single-parent households have become more and more common.
c. Almost half of the children of divorced families have not seen their father in more than one year.
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