natal family
Which of the following refers to the family into which one is born and raised?
77 Million
Approximately how many children were born during the "baby boom"?
Nuclear Family
What is the family formed by a married couple and their children called?
corporate group
Most families function as groups of real people who work together toward common ends. Such family groups are referred to as
extended family
If you live in a household with your mom and dad, your grandfather, as well as your aunt and two cousins, you live in what kind of family?
exogamous
When social norms dictate that someone from a particular clan must marry outside of that clan, anthropologists say that the clan is
the mother
Matrilineal descent is traced through which relative?
the mother's brother
In a kinship system with matrilineal descent, who does a man inherit his rights to land and clan wealth from?
cognatic clan
A clan that reckons descent through both their mother and father is called a
polyandry
When a woman marries more than one man she is practicing
cousins
Anthropologists have studied hundreds of different kinship systems around the world over the past century, but they can all be grouped into six different patterns based on terms for which group of relatives?
a woman who agrees to have an embryo implanted in her womb
A surrogate mother is
most young married men were serving in the military
Why were American birth rates low from 1942 to 1946?
cognatic
Clans come in three types: matrilineal, patrilineal, and
surnames
Which of the following do Americans traditionally inherit patrilineally?
unilineal descent
When descent is based in a single line it is referred to as
-although women can now own property, be breadwinner and head of a household, and can earn more than a husband, many Americans still think of the ideal family as centered on the father
- we usually get our surnames from our father, giving our kinship syst
Matrilineal descent is typically difficult for Americans to grasp because it feels so unnatural to us. What explains this feeling that matrilineal descent is unnatural since as Americans we also recognize that we are descended from one mother and her pare
-by religious rites like christenings that identify a nonrelative as a relative (such as a godfather or a godmother)
-By behaving like a relative
-By being related to someone who is related to you
Although most Americans think that kinship is basically about biological relatedness, anthropologists have long recognized that kinship is about relationships that can also be established though which of the following linkages?
genealogical amnesia
What do anthropologists call the structural process of forgetting whole groups of relatives?
it is easier for the family to forget the surnames of women after several generations
What is the combined effect of having surnames that are inherited from a child's father and having a woman take her husband's surname at the time of marriage?
two or more brothers
Women who practice polyandry tend to marry
the psychological revulsion against having sex with close relatives
Which of these is known as the "Westermarck effect"?
1%
In vitro fertilization (IVF) births account for approximately how many live births in the United States today?
Birth control pills
Which technology led to what is referred to as the "sexual revolution" in the 1960s?
a father's purchase of a new car for his daughter when she goes off to college
Anthropologists think of bride price as being about not buying anyone but compensation for rights in women�her labor, her support for family affairs, her looking after children, and rights of sexual access. What other social payment is structurally most d
-whether same-sex weddings were more accepted today than commitment ceremonies had been when Lewin did her research
-The meaning that such ceremonies have for same-sex couples, especially in relation to the meanings given to weddings by straight couples
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Since anthropologist Lewin studied same-sex commitment ceremonies many states have approved same-sex marriage. If you were doing a similar study today, which of the following would be a focus of your research in same-sex weddings?
-The range of relatives prohibited by the incest taboo varies too widely from society to society to be explained by a selection
-No gene (or combination of genes) has been linked to the proposed revulsion
-There is no reason to assume that the revulsion i
Steven Pinker, an evolutionary biologist, argues that natural selection has selected genes that cause us to feel little sexual attraction for people we have grown up with. From an anthropological perspective on kinship, what is wrong with this view?
-child price payments over a period of years are meant to counter the rights and claims of the children's mother's brother
-The long period of payments guarantees an ongoing relationship between the child's father and the child's mother's brother
-Such pa
What is the effect of requiring child price payments over a period of many years among the Daribi of the highlands of Papua New Guinea?
the genetic differences among different members of the extended family
When cultural anthropologists examine families in different cultures, they use cultural analysis to understand all of the following except
who inherits the parent's land?
From an anthropological perspective, which of the following is not a new issue that arises with in vitro fertilization (IVF), surrogacy, adoption, and frequent divorce and remarriage in American society?