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Marital Residence and Kinship
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1 .       Ambilineal descent affiliates an individual with kin related to him or her through men or women. [Hint]

 
 


2 .       Avunculocal is the least common form of residence pattern. [Hint]

 
 


3 .       A lineage is a set or kin whose members believe themselves to be descended from a common ancestor or ancestress, but the links back to that ancestor are not specified. [Hint]

 
 


4 .       Most people in the United States practice bilateral kinship system. [Hint]

 
 


5 .       Unilineal descent kinship terminology is the least complex. [Hint]

 
 


6 .       Most matrilineal societies practice patrilocal residence. [Hint]

 
 


7 .       In commercial societies, most newly wedded couples practice either matrilocal or patrilocal residence. [Hint]

 
 


8 .       Warfare seems to be closely related to residence patterns. [Hint]

 
 


9 .       Matrilineal organizations lead to much greater control of societies by females. [Hint]

 
 


10 .       Patrilineal is the most frequent rule of descent. [Hint]

 
 


11 .       One of the greater functions of descent groups is that of regulating marriage. [Hint]

 
 


12 .       Bilateral is the most frequent rule of descent. [Hint]

 
 


13 .       Matrilocal residence is when the daughter stays and the son leaves so that the married couple lives with or near the wife's parents. [Hint]

 
 


14 .       A moiety is a unilineal descent group composed of supposedly related clans. [Hint]

 
 


15 .       Unilineal descent groups exist in societies at all levels of cultural complexity. [Hint]

 
 






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