Anthropologists study kinship systems as they offer critical insight into cultural patterns of identity and social and economic connections. Kinship diagrams chart this system and begin with a specific person called _________. 

At a basic level, societies can be divided into those that have an immediate return system for finding food and those that have a delayed return system. This group is a classic example of an immediate return system:

What did the 2016 Presidential Election reveal about sex and gender relations in the United States today?

The Kwakwaka’wakw tradition of the “potlach” is an example of this mode of subsistence:

Anthropologists are reasonably certain that social stratification __________.

Among the Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea, what serves as the basis of all social relationships?

Heteronormativity refers to the partnering of one man and one woman in a sexually exclusive relationship, which is a norm rooted in biological science. 

Generalized reciprocity is most likely between __________.

In analyzing agriculture and its impacts, anthropologists focus on four important characteristics shared by agricultural communities. This includes all of the following EXCEPT:

Matrilineal descent defines membership in the kinship group through the maternal line of relationships between mothers and their children and results in a matriarchal structure in society.