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This post-marital residence makes the wife move in to her husband's family
What is virolocal?
100
This term describes forbidden relationships with one's family member (i.e. your brother or your sister)
What is incest taboo?
100
This kinship system follows the father's bloodline.
What is patrilineal?
100
This vocabulary means related by blood.
What is consanguineal?
100
This idiom means to avoid a topic.
What is skirt the issue?
200
This idea means a set of rules that family members observe and follow toward one another.
What is code for conduct?
200
This is the most common type of cousin marriage.
What is cross cousin marriage?
200
This system follows both blood lines equally and the distribution of labor is clearly defined for women and men.
What is double descent?
200
This term means sisterhood.
What is sorority?
200
This idiom mean to depend on someone.
What is turn to someone.
300
This rules dictates that people marry outside their family.
What is the rule of exogamy?
300
This term means to give without expecting anything in return.
What is generalized reciprocity?
300
This type of kinship allows children to choose which side of the bloodline they wish to follow.
What is ambilineal?
300
This terms means that the newlyweds move in with the wife's family.
What is uxorilocal?
300
This means to not be able to tolerate anymore
What is get fed up with
400
Name one of the functions of marriage.
regulate mating and reproduction, division of labor, stable environment for child-rearing
400
This term means that it is damaging to one's genes.
What is genetically deleterious?
400
This is similar to double descent but the distribution of labor isn't distinct and it's more flexible.
What is bilateral descent?
400
This type of language makes a comparison between two different things or use words to create a picture for the reader.
What is figurative language?
400
This terms means to take care of someone in your home.
What is to take someone in?
500
This type of kinship is not related by blood or marriage.
What is fictive kinship?
500
This term means to marry within your own group
What is endogamy?
500
This is another term for "nonunilineal descent groups".
What is cognatic descent ?
500
This vocabulary means forever.
What is permanence?
500
This means to be the recipient of.
What is be on the receiving end?