Ca Exam 4 Part 2

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Polygamous Family

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one individual with multiple spouses and all of their children

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Neolocal Residence

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a pattern in which a married couple may establish their household in a location apart from either the husband’s or the wife’s relatives

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Ambilocal Residence

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a pattern in which a married couple may choose either matrilocal or patrilocal residence

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Fraternal Polyandry

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marriage of one woman to men who are brothers

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Matrilocal Residence

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a residence pattern in which a married couple lives in the locality associated with the wife’s relatives

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Sororal Polygyny

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marriage of one man to women who are sisters

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Kinship

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a network of relatives within which individuals possess certain mutual rights and obilgations

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Unilineal Descent

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descent that establishes group membership exclusively through either the male or female line

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Double Descent

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a system tracing descent matrilineally for some purposes and patrilineally for others

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Totemism

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the belief that people are related to particular animals, plants, or natural objects by virtue of descent from common ancestral spirits

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Kindred

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an individual’s close relatives on the maternal and paternal sides of his or her family

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Iroquois

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kinship terminology wherein a father and father’s brother are referred to by a single term, as are a mother and mother’s sister, but a father’s sister and mother’s brother are given separate terms. Parallel cousins are classified with brothers and sisters, while cross cousins are classified separately, but (unlike crow kinship) not equated with relatives of some other generation

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Endogamy

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marriage within a particular group or category of individuals

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Serial Monogamy

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a marriage form in which a man or a woman marries a series of partners in succession

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Polygamy

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being married to multiple wives/husbands

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Sororate

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a marriage custom according to which a widower marries his dead wife’s sister (a woman marries her deceased sister’s husband)

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Matrilateral cross-cousin marriage

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marriage of a woman to her father’s sister’s son, or a man to his mother’s brother’s daughter (her cross cousin on the paternal side, his cross cousin on the maternal side)

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Dowry

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payment of a woman’s inheritance at the time of her marriage, either to her or to her husband

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Family of orientation

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the family into which one is born or adopted and raised

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Conjugal family

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a family formed on the basis of martial ties

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Nuclear Family

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a group consisting of one or more parents and dependent offspring. May include a stepparent, stepsiblings, and adopted children

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Polygynous Family

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a type of polygamous family involving a man with multiple wives and their children

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Patrilocal Residence

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a residence pattern in which a married couple lives in the locality associated with the husband’s father’s relatives

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Avunculocal Residence

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residence of a married couple with the husband’s mother’s brother

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Neolocal Residence

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a pattern in which a married couple may establish their household in a location apart from either the husband’s or the wife’s relatives

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Ambilocal Residence

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a pattern in which a married couple may choose either matrilocal or patrilocal residence

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Fraternal Polyandry

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marriage of one woman to men who are brothers

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Descent Group

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any publicly recognized social entity requiring lineal descent from a particular real or mythical ancestor for membership

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Matrilineal Descent

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descent traced exclusively through the female line to establish group membership

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Ambilineal Descent

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descent in which the individual may affiliate with either the mother’s or the father’s descent group

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Phratry

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a unilineal descent group composed of two or more clans that assume they share a common ancestry but do not know the precise genealogical links of that ancestry. If only two such groups exist, each is a moiety

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Eskimo System

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system of kinship terminology, also called lineal system, which emphasizes the nuclear family by specifically identifying the mother, father, brother, and sister, while lumping together all other relatives into broad categories such as uncle, aunt, and cousin