What is dowry?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
It is a transfer of goods or money from the bride’s family to the groom or to the groom’s family.
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In what kind of kinship calculation are kin ties traced equally through males and females?
A. bifurcate collateral B. bilineal C. bilateral D. biluminous E. bifurcate merging
Early anthropologists such as Edward Tylor and Lewis Henry Morgan developed __________
a. highly systematic fieldwork techniques b. critical approaches to evolutionary theory c. comparative evolutionary approaches for studying cultures d. nontheoretical, descriptive schools of anthropology
In all human societies, kinship is tied to the biological relationships created by human reproduction. However:
a. how different societies sort and categorize kinship relationships is as much a matter of culture as it is of biology. b. bilateral descent systems are less influenced by culture than others. c. unilineal descent systems are seldom influenced by cultural definitions of social relationships. d. ambilateral descent systems are the least influenced by culture than others. e. how different societies classify kin is a direct interpretation and representation of biology and biological relationships.
Which of the options below was one of the linguistic variables that Trudgill (1974) examined in Norwich, England?
A allomorphs of the past tense morpheme B the use of the passive voice C the use of the progressive morpheme –in instead of -ing D question formation E aspirated /p/