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Define bridewealth.
Husband and his kin give gifts to wife's kin.
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What is meant by progeny price?
Making children born to couple a part of the husband's descent group.
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When the wife's family provides gifts to the husband's family, it is known as ______.
dowry
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Why is dowry mostly associated with low status females?
Women are seen as burdens for their family, so their family must compensate husband's family for taking her off their hands.
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What is the term for a widow who was burned on her husband's funeral pyre?
Sati
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As ______ becomes more stable, marriage becomes more stable.
brideswealth
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What is serial monogamy?
Having one partner at a time, but through divorce widowhood or abandonment, having several marriages in one's lifetime.
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What is meant by sororate?
A man marrying his wife's sister after his wife dies.
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What is the term for a woman marrying her husband's brother after her husband dies?
Levirate.
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Incest Taboo and Marriage
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What is incest taboo?
The prohibition of having sexual relations with people considered close relatives.
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Which civilizations allowed their royalty to marry their brothers and sisters?
Ancient Egyptians, Incans, Hawaiians
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What relationships result from marriage converting strangers into kin?
Affinal relationships.
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Marriage ______ is marrying outside of one's group, while marriage _____ is marrying within the group one belongs to.
exogamy; endogamy
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Marriage gives ________ ____, which establishes the legal father of a woman's children and the legal mother of a man's children.
legal paternity
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It gives spouses a ______ over the sexuality of the other spouse, and _____ is considered a violation of this right.
sexuality; adultery
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It gives spouses rights over the _____ and the ____ of the other.
labor; property
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It also establishes a joint fund for the benefit of the children known as _______.
inheritance
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A "relationship of ______" is established between spouses and their relatives, which creates responsibility to/of in-laws.
affinity
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In what societies is divorce more common?
In matrilineal societies.
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Divorce in the US tends to increase/decrease (1 each)
- increase after wars
- decrease when the economy is bad
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