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18 Cards in this Set
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What is a Descent Group? |
A permanent social unit, whose members claim common ancestry. |
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What is Endogamy? |
Mating or marriage within a group to which one belongs. |
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What is an Extended Family Household? |
When an expanded family household includes three or more generations. |
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What is a Family of Orientation? |
The family one is born into and grows up in. |
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What is a Family of Procreation? |
The family which is formed when one marries and has children. |
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What is a Levirate? |
The custom by which a widow marries the brother of her deceased husband. |
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What is Matrilineal Descent? |
People join the mother's "group" at birth and remain members for life. |
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What is Matrilocality? |
When a couple marries they move to the wife's community so that their children will grow up in their mother's village. |
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What is Neolocality? |
Married couples are expected to establish a new place of residence. |
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What is Patrolineal Descent? |
People automatically have lifetime membership in their father's group. |
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What is Patrilocality? |
When a couple marries they move to the husband's community so that their children will grow up in their father's village. |
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What is Polyandry? |
When a woman has more than one husband. |
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What is Polygyny? |
When a man has more than one wife. |
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What is Sororate? |
The custom by which a widower marries the sister of his deceased wife. |
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What is Unilineal Descent? |
The descent rule that uses only one line, male or female. |
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What is Exogamy? |
Marriage outside of one's own group. |
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What is Lobola? |
A gift given at marriage that compensates the bride's group for her loss (Patrilineal). Makes the children born to this woman full members of her husband's descent group. |
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What is Dowry? |
A gift given at marriage to the groom's family by the bride's family. Usually correlates with low female status, women are perceived as burdens. |
