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Márcio Padilha
April 6, 2007
Cultural Anthropology
Quiz #3
Chapters 8, 9, 10 & 11
1. The woman who agrees to marry a female husband is usually ________________.
a. a woman at the end of her child-bearing years who wishes to start a new
life
2. Serial monogamy tends to occur in societies where ____________.
c. a woman with dependent children, isolated from her parents, marries a
series of partners to get the assistance of another adult.
3. The form of marriage historically favored by the ancient Hebrews and Greeks as well
as modern Arabs has been:
c. the levirate
4. Endogamy is ____________.
d. marriage within a particular group of individuals
5. In all cultures, the ___________ provides an absolute prohibition on sexual contact
between certain kin, but the definitions of who constitute close kin vary from culture-toculture.
b. incest taboo
6. Anthropologists suggest that ____________ residence arrangements, far from being
arbitrary, are adaptive in nature.
b. post-marital
7. When World War II ended, which of the following occurred among the U.S.'s
population?
e. All of the above occurred
8. When the economy is based on ____________ and when the man does most of the
productive work, the bride's people may give a dowry that protects the woman against
desertion and is a statement of her economic status.
c. intensive agriculture
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9. The independent nuclear family in Europe emerged in the ____century A.D. in
response to regulations imposed by the Roman Catholic Church.
b. fourth
10. Unilineal descent_________________________________.
b. provides an easy way of restricting descent group membership so as to
minimize problems of divided loyalty and the like
11. ____________descent groups are associated with horticultural societies in which
women are the breadwinners.
c. matrilineal
12. ___________descent is likely to be found in societies where male labor is a prime
factor and where pastoralism and intensive agricultural are practiced.
e. Patrilineal
13. The primary way in which women in ___________ can exert any influence over the
men in their family is through the village women's gossip, which can cause a loss of face
for their husbands and fathers-in-law.
b. Taiwan
14. Among the ______________, an individual might inherit grazing lands from his
father's patrilineal group, and livestock and ritual knowledge from his mother's
matrilineal group, thus providing a classic example of double descent.
d. Yako of Nigeria
15. The __________system of kinship terminology is usually associated with ambilineal
descent.
d. Hawaiian
16. Crow kinship terminology is associated with___________descent.
c. matrilineal
17. This ____________system of kinship terminology gives a separate term for each
relative.
a. Sudanese
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April 6, 2007
18. The PTA, Girl Scouts, Great Books Discussion Clubs, the Democratic Party,
Neighborhood Watch groups, United Professors of California, the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals—all of these are________.
d. common-interest associations
19. Which of the following describes a caste system?
d. a special form of social class in which membership is determined by birth
and remains fixed for life.
20. Which of the following could have contributed to the emergence of social
stratification?
e. All of the above
Choose two of the following and write a paragraph length response for each.
1. Why is the incest taboo of central importance for anthropology? Why is it so central
importance to so many societies?
Because it defines the dynamics of accepted behavior within the family which
is, in turn, the building block of society. By understanding the guidelines that
frame this concept, the anthropologist can delineate the altitudinal model as
to the transactional relationships within the group in question.
6. What is polygyny? How does it address the needs of the cultures it operates in?
Polygyny is the practice where one man marries more than one wife as a
direct relation of his wealth which, in turn, is not reflection of assets
ownership rather than of liquidity. With that being so, if wealth is expressed
by owning 50 pigs, there must be a labor force to care for the animals and
that, due to wealthy man’s lack of liquidity, is addressed by the one-manwith-multiple-wives relationship.