What is fictive kinship?
What will be an ideal response?
It is a kinship term used for individuals who are not related by blood or marriage but
are considered part of the functioning family.
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The work done by anthropologists in the Sahel region of Africa was directed at maintaining the viability of what type of group?
A) internally displaced persons B) refugees C) pastoralists D) foragers
Most cultural anthropologists would accept "a union between two or more people" as the minimal accepted definition of marriage
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Which of the following is an example of a rule of endogamy?
A. a taboo on marrying members of the same totemic group B. the Nazi law forbidding Aryans from marrying anyone but other Aryans C. a taboo against marrying within the same village D. a taboo on mating with members of one's extended family E. the incest taboo
When the French government banned the use of religious symbols in schools in 2004, it focused not merely on people's individual beliefs but also sought to shape national society by creating new rules within an established
cosmopolitanism. mental map of reality. consumer culture. cultural institution.