ANTH 112 TEST 6| Complete Solutions

ANTH 112 TEST 6| Complete Solutions

In which of the following countries is same-sex marriages considered both socially acceptable and allowed by law?

Selected Answer:

b and d

2 out of 2 points

In the United States today:

Selected Answer:

E.

Monogamy is the only legally recognized form of marriage.

2 out of 2 points

You are a young Maasai girl who spent her childhood in Kenya; your father and brothers have always raised cattle as the family’s main resource (they are pastoralists). When you are fifteen years old and in secondary school you meet a young man from the Kikuyu, and agricultural tribe. While his culture is patrilocal just as your own, they do not pay cattle as bride upon marriage, and many other cultural traditions are quite different. The young man has not been married before, so you would be his “first wife”. This marriage is:

Selected Answer:

C.

Legally acceptable, but not culturally acceptable

A culturally sanctioned union between two or more persons that establishes certain rights and obligations between the persons, between them and their children, and between them and their in- laws.

2 out of 2 points

Selected Answer:

A.

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Which of the following constitutes a culturally valid reason for divorce among different human groups?

2 out of 2 points

Selected Answer:

All of the above