31. In David W. McCurdy’s “Family and Kinship in Village India” which of the following is NOT one of the meanings or functions of the bride price (or bride wealth) given by the groom’s father to the parents of the bride in an arranged marriage? Select one:

12. In the e-reading article, Mixed Blood, Jeffrey Fish compares the systems that Americans and                              use for classifying people to show the cultural basis of race categories.        

45. According to the article “Family and Kinship in Village India,” American students have difficulty understanding the practice of arranged marriage in India. This may be because Americans feel that marriage by choice is much better, which would be an example of:

23. Which of the following is an example of a policy of assimilation?  

16. When Jorge was young, he was told not to “cry like a girl” and that he should behave more “like a man.”  When he was egged on by a boy at school to start a fight, his friends told him to “man up.” Which of the following terms best represents this example: Select one:

11. China has attempted to assimilate the nation of Tibet as part of ethnic China. One way this is done is through the repopulation of many Tibetan towns with native-born Chinese Han people. Most outside observers agree that this is a case of

14. The practice in Tibet whereby brothers marry a single wife so that their father’s land can be kept intact within the family rather than fragmented over generations can be best described with the concept of: Select one:

Way to maintain the laser focus. Thirty questions down, just twenty-four more to go. You’re now past the halfway point in the midterm. This is a good chance to breathe, glance away from the screen, get up and stretch, hydrate, etc., before embarking on the final leg of the test. Remember not to rush and to read the questions carefully. You’ve got this!

32. As discussed in the textbook chapter on sexuality, the mati in Suriname are women who form intimate spiritual, emotional, and sexual relationships with other women but may maintain a “visiting” relationship with men for the purposes of children and economics. To understand this dynamic, Gloria Wekker suggests that we

36. The expectations of thought and behavior that each culture assigns to people of different sexes is