Final Test- Anthropology

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Bilineal descent

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a kinship system in which a child is recognized as being related by decent to both parents.

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Bride-service

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a form of marriage exchange in which the groom works for his father-in-law for a certian period of time before returning home with the bride.

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cross-cousin

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offspring of either one's father sister or one's mother's brother

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descent

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the tracing of kinship relationships through parentage.

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endogamy

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marriage within a particular group or locality

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exogamy

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marriage outside a particular group or locality

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extended household

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a co-resdidential group that compromise more than one parent-child unit.

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familiy

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a group of people who consider themselves related through a form of kinship, such as decent, marriage or shering.

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genealogy

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a record of a person's relatives constructed beginning with the earliest ancestors.

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household

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a group of people, who may or may not be related by kinship, who share living space.

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hypergyny

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a marriage in which the groom is higher status than the bride.

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hypogyny

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a marriage in which the bride is higher status than the groom.

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incest taboo

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a stongly hold prohibition against marrying or having sex with a particular kin

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isogamy

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marrigae b/w status eqals

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kinship diagram

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a schemic way of representing data on kinship relationships of an individual (called "ego") depicting all of ego's relatives, as remembered by ego and reported to the anthropologist.

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kinship system

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the predominant form of kin relationships in a culture and the kinds of behaviors involved

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marriage

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a union b/w two or more people by: have sex, living together, procreative.

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matrifocality

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a household system in which a female(or females) is the central, stable figure around whom other members cluster.

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matrilineal decent

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a kinship system that highlights the importance of women by tracing decent through the female line, favoring martial residence w/ ir near the bride's family, and providing for property to be inherited through the female line.

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matrilocality

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a kinship rule that defines preferred marital residence with or near the bride's kin

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monogamy

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marriage b/w 2 people

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neolocality

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a kinship rule that defines preferred marital residence in a new location not linked to either the bride's or the groom's residence.

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nuclear household

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a domestic unit containing one adult couple, w/ or w/out children

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parallel cousin

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offspring of either one's father brother or one's mother's sister.

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patrilineal decent

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a kinship system that highlights the importance of men in tracing decent, determing marital residence w/ near the groom's family, and providing for inheritance if property thorugh the male line.

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patrilocality

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a kinship rule that defines prefered marital residence w/ or w/out the groom's kin

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polyandry

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marriage of one wife w/ more than one husband.

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polygamy

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marriage involving multiple spouses.

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polygyny

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marriage of one husband w/ more than one wife.

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stem household

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a co-residential group that compromises only 2 married couples related through males, commonly found in East Asian cultures.

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unilineal decent

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a kinship system that traces descent through only one parent, either mother or father

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achieved position (9)

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a person's standing in society based on qualities that the person has gained through action

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ascribed position (9)

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a person's standing in society based on that the persons has gained through birth

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caste system (9)

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a social stratification system linked w/ Hinduism and based on a person's birth into a particular group

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civil society (9)

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the collection of interest groups that function outside the government to organize economic and other aspects of life

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dalit (9)

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the preferred name for the socially defined lowest groups in the Indian caste system, meaning "oppressed"

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diaspora population (9)

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dispersed group of people living outside their original homeland

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mechanical solidarity (9)

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social bonding among groups that are similar

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organic solidarity (9)

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social bonding among groups w/ different abilities and resources

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primary group (9)

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a social group in which members meet on a face-to-face basis

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secondary group (9)

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people who identify w/ each other on some basis but may never meet w/ one another personally

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social group (9)

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a cluster of people beyond the domestic unit who are usually related on grounds other than kinship

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social stratification (9)

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hierarchical relationships b/w different groups as though they were arranged in layers or "strata"

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status (9)

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a person's position, or standing in society

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youth gang (9)

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a group of young people, found mainly in urban areas, who are often considered a social problem by adults and law enforcement officials