ANTH 411 Sara Withers - Exam #3
Family - correct answer ✔A group of people who are considered to be
related in some way - by blood or by marriage
Kinship - correct answer ✔A network of culturally recognized relationships
among individuals, either through affinial (marriage) or consanguinial (blood)
ties
Affines/Affinal Kin - correct answer ✔AFFINES: kin through marriage
Cognates/Consanguineal Kin - correct answer ✔Cognates: The kind of
kinship bond that links people through socially recognized biological ties, such
as mother, father, grandparents, children, grandchildren, uncles, aunts,
brothers, sisters, and cousins.
Fictive Kin - correct answer ✔The kind of kinship bond that links parents to
their adopted children.
Unilineal Descent Systems - correct answer ✔The general descent principle
in which kinship is traced only through a single line of ancestors, male or
female. Both males and females are members of a family, but descent links
are only recognized through relatives of one gender.
The general descent principle that about 60% of all societies used to trace
descent until the early 20th century. (Hint: most of these societies had small
numbers of people.)
The descent system which results in only one direct ancestors in each
generation.
, The descent system in which there are the least possible number of ancestors
per generation—i.e., there is only one ancestor per generation.
Matrilineal Descent Patterns - correct answer ✔The descent principle in
which kinship is traced only through the female line.
With this pattern, people are related if they can trace descent through females
to the same female ancestor. Both males and females inherit family
membership but only females can pass it on to their descendants.
The descent pattern of societies that use the Crow kin naming system.
Patrilineal Descent Patterns - correct answer ✔The descent principle in
which kinship is traced only through the male line.
With this pattern, people are related if they can trace descent through males
to the same male ancestor. Both males and females inherit family
membership but only males can pass it on to their descendants.
The descent pattern of societies that use the Omaha kin naming system.
(Hint: think in terms of patrilineal, matrilineal, bilateral, etc.)
Cognatic Descent Systems - correct answer ✔Cognatic kinship is a mode of
descent calculated from an ancestor or ancestress counted through any
combination of male and female links, or a system of bilateral kinship where
relations are traced through both a father and mother.
Bilateral Descent Systems - correct answer ✔Bilateral descent is a system of
family lineage in which the relatives on the mother's side and father's side are
Family - correct answer ✔A group of people who are considered to be
related in some way - by blood or by marriage
Kinship - correct answer ✔A network of culturally recognized relationships
among individuals, either through affinial (marriage) or consanguinial (blood)
ties
Affines/Affinal Kin - correct answer ✔AFFINES: kin through marriage
Cognates/Consanguineal Kin - correct answer ✔Cognates: The kind of
kinship bond that links people through socially recognized biological ties, such
as mother, father, grandparents, children, grandchildren, uncles, aunts,
brothers, sisters, and cousins.
Fictive Kin - correct answer ✔The kind of kinship bond that links parents to
their adopted children.
Unilineal Descent Systems - correct answer ✔The general descent principle
in which kinship is traced only through a single line of ancestors, male or
female. Both males and females are members of a family, but descent links
are only recognized through relatives of one gender.
The general descent principle that about 60% of all societies used to trace
descent until the early 20th century. (Hint: most of these societies had small
numbers of people.)
The descent system which results in only one direct ancestors in each
generation.
, The descent system in which there are the least possible number of ancestors
per generation—i.e., there is only one ancestor per generation.
Matrilineal Descent Patterns - correct answer ✔The descent principle in
which kinship is traced only through the female line.
With this pattern, people are related if they can trace descent through females
to the same female ancestor. Both males and females inherit family
membership but only females can pass it on to their descendants.
The descent pattern of societies that use the Crow kin naming system.
Patrilineal Descent Patterns - correct answer ✔The descent principle in
which kinship is traced only through the male line.
With this pattern, people are related if they can trace descent through males
to the same male ancestor. Both males and females inherit family
membership but only males can pass it on to their descendants.
The descent pattern of societies that use the Omaha kin naming system.
(Hint: think in terms of patrilineal, matrilineal, bilateral, etc.)
Cognatic Descent Systems - correct answer ✔Cognatic kinship is a mode of
descent calculated from an ancestor or ancestress counted through any
combination of male and female links, or a system of bilateral kinship where
relations are traced through both a father and mother.
Bilateral Descent Systems - correct answer ✔Bilateral descent is a system of
family lineage in which the relatives on the mother's side and father's side are
