Description acceptable. In Generalized Exchange, Peter Bearman suggests that classificatory kinship norms have induced this practice between Aboriginal peoples on Groote Eylandt, unbeknownst to them. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this practice. Kingsley Davis and Robert Merton separately theorized that members of low-prestige ethnic groups engaged in this practice at a higher rate when their socioeconomic status was higher.
ANSWER: intermarriage [accept answers describing marriage between people of different groups or marriage between people of different classes; accept inter-caste marriage; prompt on marriage]
[10m] Bearman’s article draws on foundational concepts from this anthropologist’s study of bride exchange in Elementary Structures of Kinship. This French anthropologist is also known for his memoir Tristes Tropiques.
ANSWER: Claude Lévi-Strauss
[10e] Lévi-Strauss argued that bride exchange represents the end of a chain exchange of these objects. According to Lévi-Strauss, the exchange of these objects often given for birthdays is an expression of friendship and not bartering.
ANSWER: gifts [or presents]
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