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1
Making value judgments about another culture from the perspective of one's own cultural system is the definition of
A)ethos.
B)ethnology.
C)ethnocentrism.
D)etiology.
2
The definition of kinship is
A)any marriage system that allows multiple spouses.
B)your membership in a family and your relationship to other members of that family.
C)nuclear families that are connected through time.
D)a social unit made up of persons of approximately the same age.
3
Anthropologists must fight ethnocentrism by practicing
A)cultural relativity.
B)good manners.
C)objectivity.
D)good hygiene.
4
In chimpanzees the strongest social bond is between
A)mother and infant.
B)siblings.
C)father and son.
D)age mates.
5
The base of any kinship system is the
A)extended family.
B)community.
C)nuclear family.
D)grandparents.
6
What percentage of world societies is polygynous?
A)less than 1 percent
B)25 percent
C)50 percent
D)over 70 percent
7
Why is polygyny not found in industrial societies?
A)Production is more dependent on non-human energy.
B)Fewer people can produce more food.
C)Large families would put a strain on a family's economics.
D)All of these.
8
Where is polyandry found?
A)in societies that have large tracts of available land
B)in industrial societies
C)in societies that need a large workforce to tend the land
D)in societies where land is scarce and inherited through men
9
Nuclear families that are connected through time is the definition of
A)kinship.
B)descent lines.
C)monogamy.
D)polygyny.
10
Kinship where an individual is a member of the mother's descent line is called
A)matrilineal.
B)patrilineal.
C)bilateral.
D)unilineal.
11
Around 60 percent of the world's societies are
A)matrilineal.
B)bilineal.
C)unilineal.
D)patrilineal.
12
A bilateral kinship system is
A)where an individual is a member of both parents' descent lines.
B)where an individual is a member of only one parent's descent line.
C)where an individual is a member of the father's descent line.
D)where an individual is a member of the mother's descent line.
13
Why are foraging societies most likely to have a bilateral descent system?
A)There is no division of labor.
B)They are egalitarian.
C)They have fairly large numbers of nuclear families.
D)All of these.
14
Which of the following terms is defined as members that remain associated for life and have certain special social and economic rights and responsibilities toward one another?
A)parallel cousins
B)age sets
C)cross cousins
D)political organizations
15
The definition of chiefdom is
A)a political organization with no central leader but where the subunits may make collective decisions about the entire group.
B)a political organization with central authority governing all the individual units.
C)a political organization with no central leader but made up of many interacting units, each of which has a leader.
D)a secular, nonkinship means of organizing the interactions within a society and between one society and others.
16
Which group is most likely to have a political system based on chiefdoms?
A)horticultural societies
B)agricultural societies
C)small pastoral societies
D)some of these
17
The political organization with no central leader but where the subunits may make collective decisions about the entire group is the definition of
A)a chiefdom.
B)a tribal organization.
C)a state organization.
D)a men's association.
18
Which of the following is NOT and example of centralized authority?
A)the United States
B)the Maya of Central America
C)ancient Egypt
D)the Kwakiutl of British Columbia
19
Descent systems are most often a reflection of
A)subsistence patterns.
B)the nuclear family.
C)political organization.
D)the environment.
20
Marriage patterns are most often correlated with
A)subsistence patterns.
B)the nuclear family.
C)political organization.
D)the environment.





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