Name and describe three types of post-marital residence
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
?Neolocal residence is when the newly married couple establishes a separate and new residence following marriage, patrilocal residence is when they live with the groom’s father’s family and matrilocal is when they live with the bride’s mother’s family.
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Neandertal subsistence was based on
a. hunting using spear throwers. b. hunting large mammals. c. intense agriculture. d. horticulturalism. e. herding domesticated animals.
The incest taboo is possibly the closest thing anthropologists have found to a true “cultural universal,” because some form of the taboo exists in all known societies. Why is this so important to people cross-culturally? Explain the various theories for the existence of a worldwide incest taboo.
What will be an ideal response?
What material symbol defines what is important in life for most people in Europe and the United States?
a) Money b) Food c) Sports d) Kin
Which of these is most likely to be a subject for study by anthropological linguists?
a. Analyzing the pattern of sounds in the Mandarin Chinese language b. Studying why adults have greater difficulty making some sounds more than others c. Examining how different forms of the same language are used in different social contexts d. None of these is a subject for anthropological linguistics