Describe two of the ways a mode of livelihood affects the kinship system within it
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer will include:
1. Bilineal descent makes sense in foraging societies because it provides flexibility and reflects fluid social arrangements.
2. Unilineal descent makes sense in modes where there is a fixed resource base—horticulture, pastoralism, and agriculture—because it provides stability.
3. Most matrilineal societies are horticulturalists, the mode in which women often have significant responsibility.
4. Bilineal descent is associated with smaller kinship groups and therefore enables the flexibility and spatial mobility associated with industrial/digital economy societies.
You might also like to view...
Social monogamy is not necessarily reproductive monogamy
a. True b. False
According to Rogozen-Soltar in "Becoming Muslim in Europe," the Spanish Inquisition was an effort to ensure a uniform religious and ethnic population in Spain
Over the course of several hundred years, __________ were forced to convert, or be killed or exiled. a. Catholics b. Muslims and Jews c. Catholics and Jews d. Catholics and Muslims
The purple heart recipient sacrificed is best described as a _________ motivation
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Why is the genetic comparison between humans and chimpanzees sometimes misleading?
a. It ignores qualitative differences between genomes b. It ignores quantitative differences between genomes. c. It ignores individual differentiation within genomes. d. It attempts to explain all diversity through a simple comparison.