People Everywhere Recognize a Category of People Who Are Related

question 397

Multiple Choice

People everywhere recognize a category of people who are related to them biologically or through adoption-their relatives, we call them. But the principles by which certain kinds of relatives are placed in cultural categories vary between kinship systems. Thus, English speakers think of the sisters of both our mother and our father as a single kind of relative, and we call them by the same kinship term, aunt. But there are some cultural traditions in which the sister of one's mother is considered one kind of relative and the sister of one's father a different kind, and each is called by a separate kinship term. Garrick Bailey and James Peoples, Essentials of Cultural Anthropology

• A) Nonargument.
• B) Argument; conclusion: But the principles ... vary between kinship systems.
• C) Argument; conclusion: English speakers think ... the same kinship term, aunt.
• D) Argument; conclusion: But there are some cultural ... separate kinship term.
• E) Argument; conclusion: People everywhere recognize ... we call them.

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