Cross-cultural variation in gender status is related to rules of descent and postmarital residence. Define Martilineal descent.

What will be an ideal response?


Matrilineal descent: descent traced through women only.

women tend to have high status in matrilineal, matrilocal societies

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What will be an ideal response?

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Adoption is an example of

a. a consanguineous relationship. b. extended family. c. an affine. d. fictive kinship.

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Which of the following is NOT an example of a band society?

a. Saami b. Navajo c. Tiwi d. Mbuti

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Which of the following was a result of the growing demand for sugar in Europe?

A. Sugar-producing nations moved from the periphery to the core of the world system. B. Capitalism expanded to the rest of the world. C. English peasants who grew sugarcane became members of the bourgeoisie. D. The independent indigenous nations of Mexico and South America, which grew sugarcane, became more powerful. E. The transatlantic slave trade developed.

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