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34 Cards in this Set
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Exogamy
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-a cultural rule that dictates that one must marry outside of a designated group (e.g., outside of one's lineage, clan, or village).
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Nuclear Family
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-a married couple and their children.
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Endogamy
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-a cultural rule that dictates that one must marry within a designated group.
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Levirate
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-a marriage custom in which a widow marries her deceased husband's brother.
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Sororate
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-a marriage custom in which a widower marries a sister of his deceased wife.
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Status
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-a person's position in society.
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Role
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-the culturally assigned behaviors and expectations for a person's social position.
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Monogamy
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-a form of marriage in which one woman is married to one man.
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Polygamy
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-multiple-spouse marriage
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Polygyny
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-marriage of one man to two or more women.
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Polyandry
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-marriage of one woman to two or more men.
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Sister Exchange
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-a common type of marriage consisting of the marriage of cross-cousins. Men exchange their sisters as marriage partners.
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Cross-cousin
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-ego's mother's brother's child and father's sister's child.
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Parallel-cousin
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-ego's mother's sister's child and father's brother's child.
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Bridewealth
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-a form of marriage finance in which valuable gifts are given by the groom's kin to the bride's kin.
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Dowry
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-a form of marriage finance in which valuable gifts are given by the bride's kin to the groom's kin.
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half-marriage
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-a custom among the Yurok of northwestern California and other patri-centered groups in which a man pays partial bridewealth and lives with the bride's family, and the couple's children belong to the wife and her family.
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Family of orientation
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-a person's childhood family, where enculturation takes place.
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Consanguineal Relatives
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-kin related by blood.
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Family of procreation
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-a kin group consisting of an individual and the individual's spouse and children.
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Affinal Kin
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-kin related by marriage.
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Kinship system
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-the complexity of a culture's rules governing the relationships b/w affinal and consanguineal kin.
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Extended Family
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-two or more nuclear families that are related by blood and who reside in the same household, village, or territory (e.g., a man and wife, their sons, and their sons' wives and children.)
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Household
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-a common residence-based economic unit.
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Neolocal Residence
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-a postmarriage residence rule that requires the bride and groom to set up an independent household away from both sets of parents.
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Patrilocal Residence
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-a postmarriage residence rule that requires the bride and groom to live in or near the residence of the groom's father.
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Virilocal Residence
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-the custom of living with the husband's relatives after marriage.
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Shabano
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-a Yanomamo village.
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Matrilocal Residence
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-a postmarriage residence rule that requires the bride and groom to live in or near the residence of the bride's mother.
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Uxorilocal Residence
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-the custom of living with the wife's relatives after marriage.
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Matrifocal Residence
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-a residence group consisting group consisting of a woman and her children residing w/o co-residence of a husband.
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Avunculocal Residence
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-a postmarriage residence rule that requires the bride and groom to reside with or near the groom's mother's brother.
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Bilocal Residence (also called Ambilocal Residence)
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-the condition in which a newly married couple reside wither with or near the groom's parents or the bride's parents.
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Matri-Patrilocal Residence
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-a temporary residence form in which the groom moves to live with the bride's family until bridewealth payments are complete and the couple take up permanent patrilocal residence.
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