The socially recognized ties that connect people in a variety of different ways are called
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Relatedness
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In the place in Nicaragua where he did his research, Roger Lancaster discovered that
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-"Manly men" are expected to be aroused by the idea of sex with a woman
-"Manly men" are expected to be aroused by the idea of sex with a cochón
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Following a marriage, the kin of the husband and the kin of the wife are linked by
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Affinity
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Which of the following statements describes polygynous Mende households?
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Wives are ranked by order of marriage.
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According to Janet Dolgin, all the custody cases she reviewed were alike in that they awarded custody to
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Those parties whose living arrangements came closest to the traditional U.S. middle-class two-parent family
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Kinship relationships based primarily on nurturance are examples of
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Adoption
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The principle that a descent group is formed by people who believe they are related to each other by connections made through their mothers and fathers equally is the principle of
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Bilateral descent
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The so-called berdache of many indigenous North American societies is an example of a supernumerary sex
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That is a role that apparently had nothing to do with morphological sex anomalies
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Which of the following describes the Nicaraguan cochón, according to Roger Lancaster?
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-They are never the victims of hate crimes.
-They are much admired performers during Carnival.
-They adopt the "cochón" identity after consistently losing out in the competition for male status.
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According to Will Roscoe, the presence of multiple genders requires
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-A view of physical differences as unfixed or insufficient on their own to establish gender
-A view of physical differences as simply less important than individual or social factors in determining gender
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Which of the following people belong to the same matrilineage?
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A woman - her mother - her son
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Families in which several generations live together in a single household are called
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Extended families
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In the vocabulary of kinship studies, father's sister's children and mother's brother's children are called
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Parallel cousins
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Which of the following statements describes divorce among the Inuit?
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-Divorce was impossible.
- Married partners who had been living apart could reactivate their marriage simply by beginning to live together again.
-When a married couple split up, and the partners remarried, the consequence was more, not fewer, affinal connections.
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A kindred is composed of
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Those people linked to Ego through Ego's mother and Ego's father
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Recent court decisions in the United States involving the paternal rights of unwed presumed fathers established that
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Paternity rights depend on his establishing an ongoing relationship with the child's mother
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"Daughter" and "son" are examples of
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Ascribed statuses
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Consanguineal relationships are connections based on
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Descent
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A husband, a wife, and their children form a
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Conjugal family
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The distinction made between kin who are believed to be in a direct line and those who are off to one side is called
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Collaterality
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Which of the following statements describes the attitude of Mende women toward the education of their children?
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They care about their children's formal education because better educated children earn more, and Mende women depend on their children to support them in old age.
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The postmarital residence rule requiring a couple to live with, or near, the husband's father is called
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Patrilocal
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Which of the following would NOT belong to a man's patrilineage?
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His sister's son
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For anthropologists, a nuclear family is made up of
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A married couple and their children
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Kinship relationships based primarily on nurturance are examples of
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Adoption
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A descent group formed by people who can specify their connections to one another through parent-child links to a common ancestor is a
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Lineage
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The institution that transforms the status of the participants, carries implications about permitted sexual access, the position of offspring in the society and establishes new kin connections is
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Marriage
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"Good hunter" or "good gatherer" are examples of
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Achieved statuses
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The so-called berdache of many indigenous North American societies is an example of a supernumerary sex
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That is a role that apparently had nothing to do with morphological sex anomalies
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Nicaraguan men whom Lancaster interviewed about the Sandinistas' New Family Laws in the 1980s
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Rejected these laws because they required men to behave in ways that were viewed as "unmanly"
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The hijras of Gujarat, India, are an example of a supernumerary sex
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Based on the surgical removal of genitalia on adult males
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According to anthropologist Lesley Sharp, which of the following statements is correct?
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-Kin of organ donors rarely get along with organ recipients because they refuse to acknowledge that a donor organ can belong to any body except the one in which it originally grew.
-Donor kin and recipients alike share the understanding that transplanted organs, as donor fragments, carry with them some essence of their former selves that persists in the new recipient body.
- Donor kin and recipients face questions such as whether or not donor kin have postmortem "visiting rights" to the transplanted organs of their relatives.
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Sharp offers an example of Sally, a widow in her mid-50s whose son's heart had been transplanted into the body of Larry, a married man in his late 60s. Why, in Sharp's view, did the role of donor mother become so important for Sally and Larry, once they got to know each other?
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-It helped them deal with the "incestuous" overtones in their relationship.
-Larry had never known his own mother.
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Which of the following sets of people belong to the same patrilineage?
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A father - his son - his son's daughter
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According to Gill Shepherd, for Mombasa Swahili women,
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A marriage between a poor husband and a rich wife might be more shocking than a lesbian relationship between a rich woman and a poor one
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In Zumbagua, Ecuador, a woman's biological tie to her offspring is
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Given equal weight to a man's biological tie to his offspring
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Which of the following observations about polygynous families is false?
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-Children with the same mother are not distinguished from children with different mothers.
-Children of different wives are never jealous of one another, since they learn to think of all the wives as "mothers" who are equally concerned about their welfare.
-Disputes about inheritance are rare, since only rich men capable of providing well for all his children can become polygynous in the first place.
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Which of the following is an important new kinship status that Sharp found developing among donor kin and organ recipients?
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Donor mother
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Among the Nuer, if a quarrel erupted between members of different minimal lineages, it would ordinarily be resolved when the quarreling minimal lineages recognized that they were all part of the same major lineage. This process is called
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Segmentary opposition
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Social relationships that are prototypically derived from the universal human experiences of mating, birth, and nurturance are called
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Kinship
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For woman marriage to be possible, a society must recognize a distinction between
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Pater and genitor
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In the 1980s, some gays and lesbians began to argue that
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-Family members are people you can count on emotionally and materially
-Whatever endures is real
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The principle that a descent group is formed by people who believe they are related to each other by connections made through their mothers and fathers equally is the principle of
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Bilateral descent
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Marriage patterns
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Reveal differences in the culturally shaped understanding of male and female sexuality
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In the Calvert case, which involved gestational surrogacy, the court declared that Anna Johnson, who gave birth to the baby was
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A genetic hereditary stranger
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In Zumbagua, Ecuador, a family is defined as
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Those who eat together
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he relatively "unofficial" bonds that people construct with one another that tend to be personal, affective, and often a matter of choice are collectively referred to as
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Friendship
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The social positions people may attain later in life, often as the result of their own effort are
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Achieved statuses
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Sharp offers an example of Sally, a widow in her mid-50s whose son's heart had been transplanted into the body of Larry, a married man in his late 60s. Why, in Sharp's view, did the role of donor mother become so important for Sally and Larry, once they got to know each other?
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-It helped them deal with the "adulterous" overtones in their relationship.
-It helped them deal with the "incestuous" overtones in their relationship.
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In the vocabulary of kinship studies, father's brother's children or mother's sister's children are called
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Parallel cousins
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The postmarital residence rule requiring a couple to live with, or near, the husband's mother's brother is called
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Avunculocal
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In the vocabulary of kinship studies, father's sister's children and mother's brother's children are called
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Cross Cousins
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The wealth transferred, usually from parents to daughter, at the time of her marriage is a
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Dowry
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Which of the following would NOT belong to a man's patrilineage?
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His sister's son
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Enduring kin ties in Zumbagua, Ecuador, are
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Achieved
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Eunuchs in the Byzantine civilization of late antiquity are an example of a supernumerary sex
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That was deliberately created by removing a male's testicles before puberty
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A unilineage can be
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Either A or B
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