The general term for a marriage partner selection rule requiring that marriage be to someone within a defined social group such as an extended family, religious community, economic class, ethnic or age group. | endogamy |
The general term for a marriage partner selection rule requiring that marriage be with someone outside of a defined social group such as one's nuclear or extended family. | exogamy |
The kind of marriage selection rule that is intended to prevents incest. (Hint: think in terms of endogamy and exogamy.) | exogamy |
The kind of marriage selection rule that applies when relatives tell you that you should marry someone who speaks your own language and has the same cultural values. (Hint: think in terms of endogamy and exogamy.) | endogamy |
The kind of marriage selection rule that applies when the law says that you cannot marry your sibling or parent. (Hint: think in terms of endogamy and exogamy.) | exogamy |
The percentage of the world’s cultures that define at least some cousins as preferred mates. | about 30% |
The preferred marriage partner among the Bedouin Arabs. (Hint: it is some kind of cousin.) | patrilateral parallel cousin (i.e., a parallel cousin on the father’s side of the family) |
The preferred marriage partner for a man among the Yanomamö Indians of Brazil and Venezuela. | a close male friend’s sister (i.e., they exchange sisters for marriage partners); in subsequent generations, this ideally results in cross cousin marriage |
The term for being married to more than one spouse at the same time. | polygamy |
The term for being married to more than one man at the same time. | polyandry |
The term for being married to more than one woman at the same time. | polygyny |
The term for being married to only one spouse at a time. | monogamy |
The term for being married more than one spouse but only one at a time. | serial monogamy |
The form of marriage that was preferred by only 20% of the sample of 850 societies in the world described in the tutorial. (Hint: think in terms of polygamy versus monogamy.) | monogamy |
The form of marriage that most people in the world follow today. (Hint: think in terms of polygamy and monogamy.) | monogamy |
The people in Greek villages who traditionally have been socially prohibited from marrying again after the death of their spouses. (Hint: think in terms of men and women.) | women |
The rarest form of marriage in the world. (Hint: think in terms of monogamy, polygyny, and polyandry.) | polyandry |
The areas of the world in which polyandry is a culturally accepted form of marriage. | some isolated rural regions of India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Tibet |
The form of polyandry in which two brothers marry the same woman. | fraternal polyandry |
The reason that the introduction of the notion of romantic love has been disruptive in polyandrous marriages. | It encourages the concept of exclusive bonds with the wife by each husband. |
The major areas of the world in which polygyny is still a culturally accepted form of marriage. | Moslem nations, traditional cattle herding societies of East Africa, and the remnants of the old kingdoms of West Africa. |