Anthro 145 Midterm Questions and
answers 2024/2025 update
avuncolocal ANS✔✔ Residence after marriage with a person's mother's brother. Since in all known
cases, the couple resides with the husband's maternal uncle, this also is known as viri-avuncolocal
residence
affine ANS✔✔ a relative by marriage; what English speakers term an "in-law"
bilateral kinship ANS✔✔ kinship traced to relatives "on both sides," that is, through both the father and
the mother
the idea that kinship ties are bilateral is a cultural universal
brideservice ANS✔✔ the groom lives and works for the parents of the bride for several years after their
marriage
bridewealth ANS✔✔ marriage payments that are given from the husband and the his kin to the bride's
kin
also described by the term "brideprice"
clan ANS✔✔ a descent group or category of people whose members trace descent from an ancestor or
ancestress.
clans can be patrilineal, where the descent is traced through men
of it can be matrilineal, where the descent links are traced through women
in clans the actual links to a distant ancestor may not be known so that the connections between
present-day members may not be traceable
,consanguine ANS✔✔ a relative by "blood" or birth, as distinguish from in laws (affines) and step
relatives
cross cousin ANS✔✔ the child of one's mother's brother or father's sister
another description is that they are the children of a brother and a sister
still another way to think about this is that they are one's parents opposite-sex sibling's child
descent ANS✔✔ a relationship defined by connection to ancestors/ancestresses through culturally
specified sequences of parent-child links (from father to son to son's son in patrilineal descent, from
mother to daughter to daughter;s daughter in matrilineal descent)
domestic group ANS✔✔ people who live together and share work and resources
other similar terms are family and household
anthropologists typically distinguish between the family as the unit of child rearing adn the household as
the unit of economic cooperation
dowry ANS✔✔ goods sent with a woman at her marriage
endogamy ANS✔✔ marriage within a defined category or group or range of kinship (in-marriage)
exogamy ANS✔✔ marriage outside a particular category or group or range of kinship (out marriage)
hypergamy ANS✔✔ marriage of a woman to man of higher status
this is more common cross-culturally than hypogamy which is marriage of a woman to a man of lower
status
, kindred ANS✔✔ a social group or category of people who comprise an individuals's set of relatives
levirate ANS✔✔ a custom in which a woman is expected or entitled to marry the brother of her
deceased husband
lineage ANS✔✔ people who trace their decent to a common ancestor through known links
matrilateral ANS✔✔ a kin relationship on the mother's side, that is, through one's mother
matrilineal ANS✔✔ a form of descent reckoning traced from an ancestress through her daughter,
daughter's daughter, and so on (through the female line)
present day matrilineal descendants can be male or female, but the males cannot pass on the descent
themselves
neolocal ANS✔✔ residence of a couple after marriage in a new household of their own, ie not linked to
the household of the parents of the bride or groom
parallel cousin ANS✔✔ the child of one's mother's sister or father's brother
the children of one's parent's same-sex siblings
patrilateral ANS✔✔ a kin relationship on the father's side, that, is through one's father
patrilineal ANS✔✔ a form of descent reckoning traced from an ancestor through his son, son's son, and
so on (through the male line)
present day patrilineal descendants can be male or female, but the females cannot pass on the descent
themselves
polyandry ANS✔✔ marriage of one woman to two or more men
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