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In Conjunction with Cultural Anthropology - Touro Institute

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9. Divorce is most likely where:<br />

a. bride price is customary.<br />

b. dowry is customary.<br />

c. it is customary for the couple to live in an extended family.<br />

d. income is unrelated to kinship ties and neolocal residence is practiced.<br />

10. High social rank is LEAST likely to be associated <strong>with</strong> old age where:<br />

a. the married couple are economically independent from other relatives.<br />

b. post-marital residence rules require a couple to live near one spouse’s parents.<br />

c. older people live <strong>with</strong> related married couples<br />

d. descent is traced through only one of the parents rather than through both.<br />

11. Which of the following is NOT true of funeral rituals?<br />

a. They encourage the survivors to adjust to the absence of the deceased.<br />

b. They provide a setting in which issues of property rights are settled.<br />

c. They pass on the statuses of the deceased to new persons.<br />

d. They usually have little emphasis on religious ritual symbolism.<br />

Matching Exercise - Chapter 9: The Life Cycle<br />

1. life cycle<br />

2. rite of passage<br />

3. pregnancy rituals<br />

4. marking<br />

5. couvade<br />

6. naming ceremony<br />

7. puberty ritual<br />

8. circumcision<br />

9. scarification<br />

10. sleep crawling<br />

11. teknonymy<br />

12. divorce<br />

13. biological death<br />

14. psychological death<br />

15. social death<br />

16. funeral ritual<br />

a. the process by which one subjectively prepares for impending biological death<br />

b. the idea that the behaviors of a woman during pregnancy may influence the physical<br />

or psychological characteristics of the unborn child<br />

c. the termination of a marriage relationship<br />

d. the custom of referring to a person as the parent of his or her child rather than by birth<br />

name<br />

e. a rite of passage that formalizes the change from the status of child to the status of<br />

adult<br />

f. a rite of passage that formalizes the removal of an individual from the status of living<br />

member of the social group<br />

g. religious rules such as taboos designed to protect the unborn child and the mother<br />

during pregnancy and childbirth or admonitions to engage in acts believed to be a<br />

positive influence on the developing child<br />

h. the surgical removal of the foreskin from the penis

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