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ANT300
Week 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is bilateral descent | descent that recognizes both the mother's and the father's sides of the family |
| What is the name for a society in which there is no great difference in status or power between individuals and there are as many valued status positions in the societies as there are persons able to fill them | an egalitarian society |
| Cultural rules or expectations emphasizing the need to marry within a cultural group are known as | Endogamy |
| Polygymy refers to | marriages in which there is one husband and multiple wives |
| What are kinship systems that recognize only one sex-based "side of the family known as | unilineal descent systems |
| In __ systems, membership is determined by birth and remains fixed for life, and social mobility-moving from one social class to another-is not an option | caste |
| __ have a clear tendency towards instability despite trappings designed to induce awe in the wider population | states |
| Tribes are __ societies | egalitarian |
| What is a stratified society? | A society in which elites who are a numerical minority control the strategic resources that sustain life |