Cultural Anthropology
Grunlan and Mayers
Chapter 8

  1. What are two biological and three sociological bases for the family?

  2. What are five social mechanisms that have been devised for the maintenance of the family?

  3. What is the term to describe when a person marries within his or her tribe or clan?

  4. What is the term to describe when a person marries outside his or her tribe or clan?

  5. What incest restrictions are found in almost every culture around the world? Where were three exceptions to this practiced?

  6. What five reasons for incest taboos have anthropologists theorized?

  7. What is the term to describe when a man marries his dead brother's wife?

  8. What is the term to describe when a man marries his dead wife's sister?

  9. What are three methods of obtaining a spouse practiced by various cultures?

  10. Approximately what percent of cultures forbid divorce?

  11. What terms refer to the two major kinds of polygamy and what is a definition of each?

  12. What people have been reported to have a form of group marriage?

  13. How many societies practice monogamy exclusively?

  14. What are four bases for polygamy? Which is primary?

  15. What are two types of families based on extent?

  16. What are four patterns of living for a new family?
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