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cult Anthro ch 9
cult anthro: the human challenge ch 9
Question | Answer |
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People related through marriage. | affinal kin |
A residence pattern in which a married couple may choose either matrilocal or patrilocal residence. | ambilocal residence |
A designated period of time after marriage when the groom works for the bride’s family. | bride service |
Money or valuable goods paid by the groom or his family to the bride’s family upon marriage. Also called bride wealth. | bride-price |
A family established through marriage. | conjugal family |
A family of “blood relatives” consisting of related women, their brothers, and the women’s off spring. | consanguineal family |
Biologically related relatives, commonly referred to as blood relatives. | consanguineal kin |
Child of a mother’s brother or a father’s sister. | cross cousin |
Payment of a woman’s inheritance at the time of her marriage, either to her or to her husband. | dowry |
Marriage within a particular group or category of individuals. | endogamy |
Marriage outside the group. | exogamy |
Two or more closely related nuclear families clustered together into a large domestic group. | extended family |
Two or more people related by blood, marriage, or adoption. The family may take many forms, ranging from a single parent with 1 or more children, 2 a married couple or polygamous spouses w/offspring, 2 several generations of parents & their children. | family |
Marriage by proxy to the symbols of someone not physically present to establish the social status of a spouse and heirs. | fictive marriage |
Marriage in which several men and women have sexual access to one another. Also called co-marriage. | group marriage |
The basic residential unit where economic production, consumption, inheritance, child rearing, and shelter are organized and carried out. | household |
The prohibition of sexual relations between specifi ed individuals, usually parent and child and sibling relations at a minimum. | incest taboo |
culturaly sanctioned union between 2 r more people that establishes certain rights & obligations between the people, between them & their children, & between them & their n laws. Such marriage rights & obligations most often include, but r not limited 2, | marriage |
A residence pattern in which a married couple lives in the wife’s mother’s place of residence. | matrilocal residence |
Marriage in which both partners have just one spouse. | monogamy |
A pattern in which a married couple establish their household in a location apart from either the husband’s or the wife’s relatives. | neolocal residence |
A group consisting of one or more parents and dependent off - spring, which may include a stepparent, stepsiblings, and adopted children. (Until recently this term referred only to the father–mother–child(ren) unit.) | nuclear family |
Child of a father’s brother or a mother’s sister. | parallel cousin |
A residence pattern in which a married couple lives in the husband’s father’s place of residence. | patrilocal residence |
Marriage of a woman to two or more men at one time; a form of polygamy. | polyandry |
One individual having multiple spouses at the same time; from the Greek words poly (“many”) and gamous (“marriage”). | polygamy |
Marriage of a man to two or more women at the same time; a form of polygamy. | polygyny |
A marriage form in which a man or a woman marries or lives with a series of partners in succession. | serial monogamy |