Networks & Kinship

1. Weak ties are powerful because they serve as ________ for information, connecting separate social cliques.
4. The form of marriage exchange practiced by the Ju/'Hoansi, where the groom pays the bride's family with labor instead of wealth.
6. The theoretical rule compelling one to marry outside their own kinship or community group, often to form political alliances.
7. The delayed, reciprocal gift exchange system used by the Ju/'Hoansi to establish long-term, risk-sharing alliances with distant camps.
8. The residence rule where a couple moves to live near the wife's mother's family, often found in societies where women's labor is central to subsistence.
10. The universal kinship and social structure found in foraging societies like the Ju/'Hoansi, characterized by equality and resource-sharing.

2. What the information you receive from your closest strong ties tends to be, since they share your social network.
3. The term for the resource flow in marriage where the bride's family transfers money or goods to the groom or the couple's new household.
5. The post-marital residence rule most common in modern industrial societies, requiring the couple to establish a new, independent home.
9. The anthropologist who argued marriage is a flexible "bundle of rights" rather than a universal definition.