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Internet Exerices1. Go to http://truthbearer.org/, and explore this Christian pro-polygamy site. Follow at least two links, and note the central arguments presented by the site authors.
- Does the Christian pro-polygamy message of this site contradict the messages of Abrahamic religious texts?
- What arguments to the site authors present in support of polygamy?
- When the site authors use the term polygamy, are they using it as an anthropologist would, to include both polygyny and polyandry?
- Do the authors of the site support polyandry?
- What are the implications of the meaning of the term "polygamy" in day to day American discourse?
2. Complete the sections having to do with Marriage in Brian Schwimmer's interactive Kinship and Social Organization tutorial at http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/kintitle.html, paying particular attention to the discussion of alliance theory and the descriptions of parallel and cross-cousin marriage.
- Define exogamy, endogamy, parallel cousin marriage and cross-cousin marriage.
- Briefly compare matrilateral cross-cousin marriage with patrilateral cross-cousin marriage.
- Or instead compare the case of the Akan of West Nigeria and the inhabitants of a Turkish Peasant village, one cross-cousin and the other parallel cousin?
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