2 Descent and Kin Groups Online Quiz Questions

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Women necessarily hold all political authority.

Group affiliation is traced through mothers, but that alone does not establish who holds political authority.

Only daughters belong to their mother's group.

People affiliate through both parents' lines.

Members may share an identity.

Membership may define obligations to cooperate.

Membership may help identify whom a person can turn to for support.

Members must always live in one household.

Membership necessarily gives women all political authority.

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A clan traces every genealogical link, while a lineage does not.

Both terms require members to live in the same household.

A lineage recognizes genealogical links to a common ancestor, while a clan generally claims shared descent without tracing each link.

A lineage includes only people related through both parents.

Access to land or other resources.

Political or religious roles.

Rules about marriage.

A requirement that all group members live together.

A universal rule that every society uses the same kin-group structure.

The group member with the most senior position must manage the land.

Group membership may be associated with land rights, while another rule determines who manages the holding.

The descent principle alone determines who manages every holding.

The land must be divided equally among all group members.

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Every society organizes clans into phratries and then into moieties.

Phratries and moieties are forms of organization that some societies use; they are not stages every society must follow.

A moiety is always a smaller group within a lineage.

Every clan must specify each genealogical link to its ancestor.

The child belongs to the father's group because descent follows the father.

The child belongs to the mother's group, while the father remains a relative in another descent group.

The child belongs to both parents' descent groups because the system is bilateral.

The child belongs to neither parent's group until reaching adulthood.

They must affiliate through their father's line.

They must affiliate through their mother's line.

They may affiliate through either parental line, with circumstances influencing the choice.

They recognize relatives only through both parental lines.

She may be an important relative but usually belongs to her own father's group.

She must belong to her child's descent group because close relatives share group membership.

She belongs to a group traced through her own mother.

She cannot be considered kin because she is outside the descent group.

A clan specifies every genealogical link, while a lineage does not.

A lineage recognizes genealogical links to a common ancestor, while a clan generally claims shared descent without tracing each link.

A lineage is always a household, while a clan is always a political office.

A clan traces descent through both parents, while a lineage traces it through one.