Question
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown provided a classic example of “joking relationships” with an article studying this social role, noting that it was permissible for subjects to steal and eat a sacrifice prepared by this type of person. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this social role. Claude Lévi-Strauss’s “alliance theory” improves on earlier theories of kinship by incorporating these people into the fundamental “atom of kinship” along with the nuclear family.
ANSWER: uncles [accept avunculate; or mother’s brother or maternal uncle; reject “father’s brother”]
[10e] By studying cultures where the uncle, rather than the father, was in charge of disciplining children, this anthropologist’s Sex and Repression in Savage Society demonstrated that the Oedipus complex was not universal.
ANSWER: Bronisław Malinowski [or Bronisław Kasper Malinowski]
[10h] A maternal uncle rubs his buttocks on the leg of a nephew who has carved his first canoe in this practice among the Iatmul people, which Gregory Bateson interpreted as a ritual to counteract schismogenesis.
ANSWER: naven ritual [accept Naven: A Survey of the Problems Suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a New Guinea Tribe]
<Matt Bollinger, Social Science>
Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 9 | 6.67 | 44% | 11% | 11% |
Data
| BHSU | Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp | Evans Hall destruction awaiters | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| I would prefer not to | Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | remembrance of lost time | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | Saint Peter Andre 3000 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| In Search of Things Past | Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Canadians | Quasicrystal Silence | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | I prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| [moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled? | Hang et al., Robert Browning | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |