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1. When romantic love is used as a criterion for selecting a spouse physical beauty is a factor. What are two other reasons for selecting a spouse?
-Personality and education are two other reasons
2. Arranged marriages have been very common worldwide for two reasons. Identify these reasons.
-Marriage unites two families, not two people.
-Mate selection is seen as being too important a decision to be left up to inexperienced young people, especially if they have had little contact with members of the opposite gender.
3. Marriage may include four categories of privileges, rights, and obligations of the marrying couple. Identify these four categories.
-Agreeing to exclusive sexual access
-Having and caring for children
-Accepting a sexual division of labor
-Agreeing to extend kinship bonds to your spouse's relatives
4. Identify four methods of preventing pregnancy.
-Not allowing adolescents to marry (especially boys), using magic (protective jewelry, ritual acts, etc.), practicing abortion (chemical or surgery), adhering to a post partum sex taboo prohibition against husbands and wives having sexual intercourse for a period of time following the birth of a child.
5. In some culture cousins are preferred spouses. Bedouin Arabs are said to marry a father’s brother’s child. This serves to strengthen extended family solidarity and reduces obligations beyond the family.
6. For men practicing polygyny, the rationale for having more than one wife is usually a combination of more sexual partners, more children, and, above all, increased social prestige.
7. Two examples of uncommon marriage arrangements for the Nuer are levirate and sororate.
8. Why do both families encourage the sororate?
Because it continues the bond between them.
9. What is an example of the survival of a dowry system in North America?
-The North American traditions of the "hope chest" and the bride's family paying for the wedding are survivals of a dowry
-Personality and education are two other reasons
2. Arranged marriages have been very common worldwide for two reasons. Identify these reasons.
-Marriage unites two families, not two people.
-Mate selection is seen as being too important a decision to be left up to inexperienced young people, especially if they have had little contact with members of the opposite gender.
3. Marriage may include four categories of privileges, rights, and obligations of the marrying couple. Identify these four categories.
-Agreeing to exclusive sexual access
-Having and caring for children
-Accepting a sexual division of labor
-Agreeing to extend kinship bonds to your spouse's relatives
4. Identify four methods of preventing pregnancy.
-Not allowing adolescents to marry (especially boys), using magic (protective jewelry, ritual acts, etc.), practicing abortion (chemical or surgery), adhering to a post partum sex taboo prohibition against husbands and wives having sexual intercourse for a period of time following the birth of a child.
5. In some culture cousins are preferred spouses. Bedouin Arabs are said to marry a father’s brother’s child. This serves to strengthen extended family solidarity and reduces obligations beyond the family.
6. For men practicing polygyny, the rationale for having more than one wife is usually a combination of more sexual partners, more children, and, above all, increased social prestige.
7. Two examples of uncommon marriage arrangements for the Nuer are levirate and sororate.
8. Why do both families encourage the sororate?
Because it continues the bond between them.
9. What is an example of the survival of a dowry system in North America?
-The North American traditions of the "hope chest" and the bride's family paying for the wedding are survivals of a dowry