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For U.S. and many other citizens in Western nations, getting married means finding the right person and tying the knot in a nice ceremony, something in other countries that is not common because

A) marriage is usually too costly to manage on one's own
B) marriage is usually a matter of social and economic relationships between families
C) not all countries have the religious authorities needed to conduct a marriage
D) who can marry is a matter decided by the state or local governing body

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When we hear people talk about the traditional American family as if it has always been structured in the same way since the Revolutionary War, we know they are simplifying the situation in unrealistic ways. What cultural factors are behind these unrealistic simplifications?

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Extended families are important in America as they are in most societies. In the United States, what determines whether members of an extended family will meet face to face?

Same-sex marriage is now legal all fifty states plus the District of Columbia, but the process of getting there has been a long and sometimes angry battle between different belief systems.What anthropological questions can you identify about the meaning that such unions have for Americans on different sides of the argument-pro or con-around same-sex marriage? What can we say about these cultural expectations when all of these changes happened within less than a decade?

The decision to marry, and whom we choose to marry, in the United States is drawn strongly from the ideology of

The social system that organizes people in families based on descent and marriage is called __________.

Which term refers to expressions of sex and gender that diverge from the male and female norms that are predominant in most societies?

Which of the following observations would be least likely to come from an anthropologist who shares Simone de Beauvoir's notion of "second sex"?

When social norms dictate that someone from a particular clan must marry outside of that clan, anthropologists say that the clan is

All societies differentiate between male and female, but one way Americans are unique in how we do it is that we link gender to

In societies that tolerate the existence of people who are neither male nor female, there is room for __________.

The prevalent belief among North Americans that sexuality is a fixed and stable conditionfrequently leads to uncertainty and even hostility about same-sex marriage and those who practice homosexuality.This idea that sexuality was considered an integral part of individual identity that does not change, originated largely because

Anne Fausto-Sterling suggests that the rate of intersex births in the United States is higher than that of albinos.

Sexual dimorphism refers to

For most of our history American kinship has had a patrilineal bias, but in most American families women play a key role in keeping the families together. Using anthropological approaches to kinship, how do you explain this difference?

Women who practice polyandry tend to marry

In many societies, third gendersare normal. In the United States today, major political battle lines have been drawn around the notion that there are anything but male and female genders. A basic concern in the last few years appears to be which bathroom a transgender individual is permitted to use, but beyondbathrooms, what are some of the possible implications of widespread acceptance or tolerance toward a third gender in American culture?

Navajo recognize five different genders, and only two are male and female.

The dichotomy between males and females is not two distinct categories but a continuum of sexual possibilities in the human species.