Module 3 (Anthropology)

PART I

Directions: Read the questions below and formulate a response to each that is at least one hundred words in length. Be sure to cite where you obtained your answers

1. Contrast a nuclear family and an extended family.

2. What are the advantages of an arranged marriage according to Native Americans?

3. Discuss the functions of exogamy and one function of endogamy.

4. Describe and explain the symbols used by anthropologists to diagram kinship relations.

5. Discuss how marriage customs are social constructs.

6. Describe two goals of kinship systems.

7. Give one difference between Hawaiian terminological systems and Iroquois terminological systems.

8. Compare and contrast kinship in patrilineal and matrilineal societies.

9. Compare and contrast the functions of kinship in societies that have unilineal descent and those that have nonunilineal (bilateral) descent.

10. Explain what a clan is.