Anthropology 2
Cultural Anthropology

Jorge Sanchez

Assignment 3: Chapters 7 through 9

Due Date: July 5, 2002
send answers via e-mail to jsanchez@hartnell.cc.ca.us by midnight of due date!

1. When a man works hard in his horticultural garden in the Trobriand Islands to produce yams, he does this to satisfy which of the following demands?

  1. to have food for his household to eat
  2. to gain prestige by giving yams away to his sisters' husbands
  3. to prove to his wife that he can work as hard as she can
  4. to give the yams to his wife so that she can trade them for goods that they don't produce themselves
  5. to trade for fish

2. In nonindustrial societies, when a tool is complex and difficult to make it is usually considered to be owned by

  1. the whole village in which it is used.
  2. a single individual.
  3. the state.
  4. all those who touch it.
  5. all relatives.

3. The American system of paying income taxes every April is an example of

  1. generalized reciprocity.
  2. balanced reciprocity.
  3. negative reciprocity.
  4. redistribution.
  5. market exchange.

4. Formal market exchange is usually associated with

  1. hunting and gathering bands.
  2. horticultural tribes.
  3. pastoral tribes.
  4. a state type of political organization.
  5. the household as the unit of production and consumption.

5. One of the newest innovations in the market-research and design industry is/are

  1. survey questionnaires.
  2. telephone surveys.
  3. ethnology.
  4. ethnography.
  5. case studies.

6. One explanation for the tendency of human females to be sexually receptive on a continuing basis is that

  1. it is an accidental by-product of the high hormone requirements for persistent bipedal locomotion.
  2. it increases competitiveness among the males of a group.
  3. it encourages endogamy.
  4. it discourages incest.
  5. it leads to greater competitiveness among women.

7. Marriage within a particular group of individuals is called

  1. incest.
  2. exogamy.
  3. monogamy.
  4. endogamy.
  5. polygamy.

8. Polygyny

  1. means marriage to more than one man.
  2. is the most common form of marriage.
  3. is usually possible only when a man is fairly wealthy.
  4. is less common than polyandry.
  5. is an example of group marriage.

9. Serial monogamy tends to occur in societies where

  1. a woman with children receives great deal of help from her mother and brothers.
  2. women do not have many children.
  3. a woman with dependent children, isolated from her parents, marries a series of partners to get assistance of another adult.
  4. women are very wealthy.
  5. divorce is forbidden.

10. When a man marries his father's brother's daughter in ancient Greece or traditional China,

  1. he is committing incest.
  2. he is practicing matrilineal cross-cousin marriage.
  3. he is practicing patrilateral cross-cousin marriage.
  4. he is keeping property within the single male line of descent.
  5. c and d

11. The ____________ is composed of people related to each other by ties of blood who bring their spouses to live in the family.

  1. extended family
  2. polygamous family
  3. consanguine family
  4. nuclear family
  5. communal family

12. Ambilocal residence is found in societies

  1. that stress the cooperation of women.
  2. where warfare is common and men wield authority.
  3. where economic activity occurs outside the family and families have to move frequently in search of jobs.
  4. where males control property but descent and inheritance are reckoned through women.
  5. where the nuclear family is not sufficient to handle the economic activities required for the family's survival but resources are limited.

13. A man who marries several sisters is practicing

  1. avunculocal residence.
  2. sororal polygyny.
  3. fraternal polyandry.
  4. infidelity.
  5. matrilocal residence.

14. What are some of the problems associated with the nuclear family?

  1. Husbands and wives tend to be isolated from their kin.
  2. There are no clear-cut lines of authority and rules for making decisions.
  3. The elderly cannot depend on their children for aid when they are too old to take care of themselves.
  4. There is very little privacy.
  5. all but d

15. Single-parent households headed by women have been known and studied for a long time in the

  1. countries of southern Europe.
  2. country of India.
  3. countries of Central American.
  4. countries of the Caribbean basin.
  5. countries of sub-Saharan Africa.

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