Week 9 Quiz

In the illustrative kinship set, ego's father's sister is married. Her husband, written FZH, is which kind of kin to ego?

Select one.

• Consanguineal kin, because he is in the parents' generation
• Affinal kin, because he is related to ego through a marriage
• Fictive kin, because he is treated as family without birth or marriage ties
• A parallel cousin, because he is linked through ego's father

In the 1910s, Trobriand Islanders traced descent matrilineally. According to Malinowski's account, who was a man's heir?

Select one.

• His own son
• His brother's son
• His sister's son
• His wife's brother

In the illustrative kinship set, ego has 4 cousins, and 2 of them, FBS and MZS, are parallel cousins. What percent of ego's cousins are parallel cousins?

Select one.

• 2 percent, the count itself
• 25 percent, because 1 ÷ 4 × 100 = 25
• 75 percent, because 3 ÷ 4 × 100 = 75
• 50 percent, because 2 ÷ 4 × 100 = 50

In the illustrative kinship set, ego's father's sister, FZ, belongs to ego's patrilineage. Why does her daughter, FZD, not belong to it?

Select one.

• FZ belongs but does not pass membership on, so FZD is in her father's line
• Daughters never belong to any patrilineage under a patrilineal rule
• FZD is a parallel cousin, and parallel cousins are left out
• FZD is affinal kin to ego, so she cannot share a descent group

True or false: matrilineal descent means that women rule the society.

True or false.

• True
• False

An illustrative group shares a story about a founder who lived long ago, but no member can name every step back to that founder. Which kind of descent group does it work like?

Select one.

• A lineage, because every member shares one ancestor from long ago
• A household, because members live near each other
• Bilateral kin, because the founder is on both sides
• A clan, because descent is claimed without every step known

Under bifurcate merging terminology, what does ego call MZS, the mother's sister's son?

Select one.

• Cousin, with a separate word from brother
• Brother, because MZS is a parallel cousin
• A separate cross-cousin term
• Uncle, because he is in the mother's line

In the illustrative kinship set, ego's generation holds B, Z, FBS, FZD, MBD, and MZS. Under generational terminology, whom does ego call brother or sister?

Select one.

• B and Z only, with every cousin called cousin
• B, Z, FBS, and MZS
• B, Z, and all four cousins
• The four cousins only

Rivers (1910), "The Genealogical Method of Anthropological Inquiry", set out a method that this week uses to draw kinship diagrams. What is the genealogical method?

Select one.

• Collecting a community's kin ties person by person
• Ranking families by how many generations they can name
• Counting the exchanges a family makes in one visit
• Asking one consultant to speak for the whole community

True or false: when you draw the illustrative market's family-run stall as a kinship diagram from field notes, you record each person's name so the diagram can be checked later.

True or false.

• True
• False