Study Guide Test 3
1. Consider the link between the independent nuclear family and the Roman Catholic Church (page
236)
2.
What effect did the industrial workplace have on the family, and how? (page 237)
3. Define a consanguine family. (page 242)
4.
What is a nuclear family? (page 244)
5. Who is an extended family composed of? (page 246)
6. What are the characteristics of a society who are most likely to practice patrilocal residence?
(page246)
7. How do most married couples live in a Trobriand society? (page 248)
8. Consider what polygynous families provide (page 248)
9. Consider examples of “normal family behaviors” in the nuclear family. (page 250)
10. What has contributed to an increase in single parent households headed by women, in North
America? (page 252)
11. Consider Hopi Indians and extended family (page 246)
12. Identify a list of tasks that may occur in a household. (page 235)
13. What might a typical living arrangement in a Mundurucu village consist of? (page 242)
14. Statistics in US – single parent households (page 252)
15. What are descent groups? (page 260)
16. What is a patrilineal descent group? (page261)
17. Define bilateral descent group. (page272)
18. How are descent groups important organizing devices? (page 260)
19. What is the significance of the kindred group and the principle of bilateral descent? (page 272)
20. Explain the Hawaiian system of kinship terminology. (page276)
21. Whose kinship terminology is associated with matrilineal descent? (page 277-78)
22. Become familiar with a kinship diagram(page275-78)
23. Be able to identify one’s parallel cousin in a kinship diagram (page 275-78)
24. Who is called “uncle” in Eskimo kinship terminology?….kinship diagram(page 275-78)
25. Who is the founder of kinship studies? (page275)
26. To what ethnic group is clan affiliation still a matter of interest? (page 258)
27. Consider common features in some matrilineal systems? (page 265)
28. How are the Winnebagos significant to the moiety system? (page 272)
29. Understand the gender roles of the Iroquois. (page 284)
30. Define caste. (page 294)
31. How does mobility relate to family organization? (page 299)
32. What kinds of policy research are done by anthropologists? (page 293)
33. Characteristics of a caste system? (page 294)
34. Who was South Africa’s first non-white president? (page 295)
35. Anthropological definition of band (in other words, not “The Beatles”) (page 308)
36. Describe a nonkinship system of political organization. (page 314)
37. In a chiefdom, goods are distributed by… (page315)
38. How is individual status determined in a chiefdom? (page 315)
39. Explain “state” in anthropological terms. (page 316)
40. What does the case of the Swazi illustrate about the states? (page 317)
41. Describe the political activity of the Igbo of Nigeria. (page 318)
42. Explain the purpose of formal sanctions? (page 322)
43. Give examples of formal and informal sanctions. (page 322)
44. Describe “personal offenses” in Western society. (page 326)
45. Define negotiation. (page 326)
46. What is the connection between state and warfare? (page 330)
47. Consider “legitimate authority” (pages 312-316)
48. E. Adamson Hoebel (page325)
49. Consider tonowi's and pig breeding (page311)
50. Examples of behaviors that would result in informal sanctions. (page 321)