Anthropology Appreciating Human Diversity 16th Edition By Conrad Kottak – Test Bank

True / False Questions

34. Polyandry is common and practiced under a wide range of conditions.
FALSE

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Topic: Plural marriages

35. Native American berdaches were permitted to marry men.
TRUE

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Topic: Marital rights and same-sex marriage

36. A new view of early human origins suggests that the emergence of a pair bond between male and female would have allowed humans to recognize their relatives.
TRUE

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Topic: Incest and its avoidance

37. Cultures have different definitions and expectations of relationships that are biologically or genetically equivalent. In other words, kinship is socially constructed.
TRUE

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Topic: What is marriage?

38. Exogamy is the practice of seeking out a mate within one’s own social group.
FALSE

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Topic: Incest and exogamy

39. The children of your father’s sister are called your cross cousins.
TRUE

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Topic: Incest and exogamy

40. Incest is a cultural universal that is defined the same way by all cultures.
FALSE

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Topic: Incest and exogamy

41. Early anthropologists explained incest taboos as a reflection of “instinctive horror” of mating with close relatives. However, this explanation for incest taboos has been rejected because formal incest restrictions would be unnecessary if humans really do have an instinctive aversion to incest.
TRUE

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Topic: Incest and its avoidance

42. The biological degeneration explanation for the incest taboo has won over supporters because of universal concerns about biology.
FALSE

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Topic: Incest and its avoidance

43. One theory regarding the universality of the incest taboo argues that by forcing people to marry outside their immediate kin group, peaceful alliances between people would extend to include a greater number of individuals.
TRUE

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Topic: Incest and exogamy

44. Homogamy is the practice of marrying within a culturally prescribed group to which one does not belong.
FALSE

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Topic: Endogamy

45. In the caste system of India, failure to adhere to class endogamy rules traditionally resulted in a ritually impure union.
TRUE

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Topic: Endogamy

46. Royal endogamy among Hawaiians functioned to limit the number of conflicts about royal succession—an explanation that serves as an example of the latent function of a social custom.
TRUE