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Chapter 6 & 9: Key Terms

ANTH 203 (-102)---Fall 2014

Chapter 6

  • core values: Those values especially promoted by a particular culture.

  • culture-bound syndrome: A mental disorder specific to a particular cultural group; also known as ethnic psychosis.

  • dependence training: Childrearing practices that foster compliance in the performance of assigned tasks and dependence on the domestic group, rather than reliance on oneself.

  • independence training: Childrearing practices that foster independence, self-reliance, and personal achievement.

  • intersexuals: People born with reproductive organs, genitalia, and/or sex chromosomes that are not exclusively male or female.

  • modal personality: Those character traits that occur with the highest frequency in a social group and are therefore the most representative of its culture.

  • naming ceremony: A special event or ritual to mark the naming of a child.

  • personality: The distinctive way a person thinks, feels, and behaves.

  • self-awareness: The ability to identify oneself as an individual, to reflect on oneself, and to evaluate oneself.

  • transgenders: People who cross over or occupy an intermediate position in the binary male–female gender construction.

Chapter 9

  • affinal kin: People related through marriage.

  • ambilocal residence: A residence pattern in which a married couple may choose either matrilocal or patrilocal residence.

  • bride service: A designated period of time when the groom works for the bride’s family.

  • bridewealth: The money or valuable goods paid by the groom or his family to the bride's family upon marriage; also called bride-price.

  • conjugal family: A family established through marriage.

  • consanguineal family: A family of blood relatives, consisting of related women, their brothers, and the women's offspring.

  • consanguineal kin: Biologically related relatives, commonly referred to as blood relatives.

  • cross cousin: The child of a mother's brother or a father's sister.

  • dowry: A payment at the time of a woman's marriage that comes from her inheritance, made to either her or her husband.

  • endogamy: Marriage within a particular group or category of individuals.

  • exogamy: Marriage outside a particular group or category of individuals.

  • extended family: Two or more closely related nuclear families clustered together in a large domestic group.

  • family: Two or more people related by blood, marriage, or adoption. The family may take many forms, ranging from a single parent with one or more children, to a married couple or polygamous spouses with or without offspring, to several generations of parents and their children.

  • fictive marriage: A marriage form in which a proxy is used as a symbol of someone not physically present to establish the social status of a spouse and heirs.

  • group marriage: A marriage form in which several men and women have sexual access to one another; also called co-marriage.

  • household: A domestic unit of one or more persons living in one residence. Other than family members, a household may include nonrelatives, such as servants.

  • incest taboo: The prohibition of sexual relations between closely related individuals.

  • marriage: A culturally sanctioned union between two or more people that establishes certain rights and obligations between the people, between them and their children, and between them and their in-laws. Such marriage rights and obligations most often include, but are not limited to, sex, labor, property, childrearing, exchange, and status.

  • matrilocal residence: A residence pattern in which a married couple lives in the wife’s mother's place of residence.

  • monogamy: A marriage form in which both partners have just one spouse.

  • neolocal residence: A residence pattern in which a married couple establishes its household in a location apart from either the husband's or the wife's relatives.

  • nuclear family: A group consisting of one or two parents and dependent offspring, which may include a stepparent, stepsiblings, and adopted children. Until recently this term referred only to the mother, father, and child(ren) unit.

  • parallel cousin: The child of a father's brother or a mother's sister.

  • patrilocal residence: A residence pattern in which a married couple lives in the husband’s father's place of residence.

  • polyandry: A marriage form in which a woman is married to two or more men at one time; a form of polygamy.