Write out a short answer to the following questions.

1		Why is the study of kinship important to anthropologists?
2		What is the explanation offered in the textbook for why biological fathers have so little to do with the care of their own biological children among the Nayar?
3		What types of statistics on the changing American family does the textbook cite in order to support its statement that "the isolation from kin that these figures suggest is unprecedented in human history"?
4		Why would communities with descent groups use a unilocal post-marital descent rule?
5		What is a modern Western example of a bifurcate collateral terminology system in operation?