Give Short Answers to the Following Questions:
1. Compare the Omaha, Crow, and Iroquois kinship terminology systems.?
2. Why does matrilineality not necessarily lead to increased political control by women?
3. Why are neolocal residence patterns so rare?
4. What features of patrilocality make it such a popular form of marital residence?
5. Describe ambilineal descent.
Questions 6, 7, 8, and 10 refer to the Kinship and Social Organization Website developed by Brian Schwimmer at the University of Manitoba.
6. According to Brian Schwimmer at the University of Manitoba, what are the universal features of kinship systems. Remember to rephrase in your own words.
7. Identify the names of all ego's relatives in the kinship diagram using our English/American system of kinship terminology.
8. Read about matrilineal descent before you answer these questions.
Looking at the matrilineal descent chart,
which of the relatives indicated in purple are in Ego's matrilineage?
A. 15 only
B. 15 and 3 only
C. 15, 3 and 23 only
D. 15, 3, 23 and 29 only
E. All of the above?
Why?
9. If I told you the Seminoles in Florida used a clan system and ego's clan was the same as ego's mother's, what kind of descent system would you think they had?
If the Seminole practiced clan exogamy, would your father's kin (another clan) be considered related? Why?
What are the Seminole clan names?
10. Read about a matrilineal kinship group, the Akan Social Organization
Their preferred marriage partners are cross-cousins. Describe the cross cousin and why it is important [function] to the Akan.
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