a boy is born into a society that practices matrilineal descent. the person who exercises authority over him is
his mother's brother
a clan is similar to lineage except: A. a clan has fewer people B. clan members are unable to trace exact genealogical links to their common ancestor C. clans are more likely to hold tangible property corporately D. clans are exogamous whereas lineages ar
B. clan members are unable to trace exact genealogical links to their common ancestor
a network of relative within which individuals possess certain mutual rights and obligations Is called
kinship
a phratry is a unilineal descent group composed of two or more ____ that believe they are related to each other
clans
a totem is all of the following except: A. a word that comes from the Ojibwa American Indian word which means "he is a relative of mine" B. a symbol of animals, plants, natural forces, and objects C. usually assoicatied with a clan's concept of its mythic
E found in all societies that have lineages
A young man of Jewish affiliation moves to New York City to find a job. Seeing no reason to "go it alone," he calls everyone he knows from both his mother's and father's side of the family, and attends various meetings to which he is invited. He is invite
ambilineal
all of the following are types of descent except: A. moiety B. phratry C. lineage D. clan E. institution
e. institution
True/False: The Tsu is a corporate kin group that traces its ancestry back about five generations through the female line
false
Lineage always involve a totem
false
among the Han, brothers and their sons were part of the same household and paternal uncles were like second fathers. what type of descent is this
patrilineal
among the Hopi, which of the following functions as a landholding corporation, allocation land for the support of member households
lineages
an extended unilineal descent group whose members claim descent from a common ancestor but who cannot trace their genealogical links to that ancestor is called an
clan
clans, because they may have members living in many different villages, depend on ____ to proved symbolic identification and promote solidarity
totems
T/F: descent groups make all laws for the state
false
if two people are given the same kinship term, this means that
they occupy a similar family status
if you are member of a patrilineal descent group
your sister belong to the same patrilineal descent group that you do
in which kinship terminology are ego's brother and sister distinguished from cousins and both father's brother and mother's brother are given the same kinship term uncle?
eskimo
In _____ kinship terminology, the term "brother" is given to ego's brother, father's brother's son, and mother's sister's song; a different term is used for the sons of father's sister and mother's brother. "Mother" refers to ego's mother and mother's sis
Iroquois
Jane Leek, born and raised in the U.S., decides to hold a family reunion. She invites her siblings, parents, both sets of grandparents, her great-aunts and great-uncles, their children, her aunts, uncles, and their children. This group brought together fo
kindred
Matrilineal descent groups are associated with farming societies in which _____ performs most of the labor in the house and gardens
women
members o a moiety
belong to one of two major descent groups in a society
new reproductive technologies are
changing the traditional understandings of kinship
North Americans assume that they are related equally to the relatives on both the mother's and father's side. The group composed of such people to whom these individuals feel that they belong is called what kind of descent group?
bilateral
the Hawaiian system of kinship terminology is usually associated with what type of descent
ambilineal
the splitting of a descent group into two or more entities is called
fission
the Turkish honor killings that van Eck studied were occurring in which country
netherlands
through what practice do lineages develop new alliances within the larger social system
exogamy
what are honor killings
Murder condoned by the genealogical group in order to retaliate for shame of unapproved sexual activity
when kinship memberships is traced either through males or through females but not both, it is called
unilineal
you belong to a patrilineal descent group. which of the following belong to the same group
your father's sister
A society with extensive types of childcare, a desire to make the individual feel socially attached and generally free of stranger anxiety, and with high levels of sharing and social involvement would most likely have what type of training or children?
interdependence
t/f: all cultures have some ceremony to mark the naming of a child
false
an alternative to the concept of national character is
core values
an ethnic psychosis refers to
a psychosis characterized by symptoms peculiar to a particular group
t/f: an individual's personality is never part of the internalized awareness of the person
false
another name for an ethnic psychosis is a
culture-bound syndrome
childrearing practices that encourage compliance in performing tasks and dependence upon the group rather than on the individual is called
dependence training
dependence training is most often found associated with which type of soceity
foraging and subsistence societies
enculturation begins with the development of self-awareness, which may be defined as
the ability to identify oneself as an object, to react and appraise oneself
idea cultural personality traits among Yanomamo men would include being
fierce and humourous
in Western countries, a psychological disorder known as _____ occurs most frequently among young women in which a preoccupation with thinness produces a refusal to eat. This is an example of a culture-bound syndrome
anorexia nervosa
John lockes theory of tabula rasa was not sufficient because it did not
take genetic contributions into account
Living in a tropical environment where one learns to orient oneself through a vertical landscape of tall trees and speckled light is part of
spatial orientation
Navajo babies begin to learn the importance of community at the
FIRST laugh ceremony
The core value to which European Americans subscribe is
rugged individualism
The personality typical of a society, as indicated by the central tendency of a defined frequency distribution, is called
modal personality
The _____ do not consider an infant truly "human" until they have given it a name.
aymara indians
Which of the following anthropologists argued that cultures are collective projections of a personality type
ruth benedict
Which of the following includes definitions and explanations of objects, spatial orientation, and temporal orientation, as well as culturally defined values, ideals, and standards that provide an individual with a normative orientation?
behavioral environment
Which of the following refers to the idea that character traits that occur with the most frequency in a cultural society are representative of the values that culture embraces?
modal personality
t/f: American children develop self-awareness earlier than do Ju/'hoansi children.
false
t/f: Culture is biologically inherited
false
Which orientation includes standards that indicate what ranges of behavior are acceptable for males and females in a particular society?
normative orientation
_____ is the distinctive way a person thinks, feels, and behaves.
personality