1. Discuss how the Nayar case illustrates the difficulties that anthropol-
ogists have in listing the common features of marriage found across cultures.
2. Describe the various forms of marriage found cross-culturally. Explain
the advantages of each from a woman’s viewpoint and from a man’s viewpoint.
3. Discuss and evaluate the adaptive significance of exogamy and endogamy.
4. What are common features and functions of families around the world?Why is it difficult to define family?
5. What is an extended family? What is a household?
6. Describe traditional family forms. How have these forms changed in
industrialized societies?
7. Compare and contrast the functions of neolocal, patrilocal, and matri-
local residence patterns.
