Women and Men: An Anthropologist's ViewThe author offers a series of hypotheses & inferences concerning the determinants & expressions of sex roles (among hunters & gatherers, & horticulturalists), based on extensive cross cultural data of her own & that of others. Conclusions are related to contemporary industrial society. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Basic Propositions | 7 |
Control of Resources 14 Warfare 15 Division of Labor in Food | 15 |
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acquire adult affinal Africa animals autonomy believed Bemba boys bride price bride service camp ceremonies chiefs Chisungu consanguineal cooked food crops cross cousins cultivation daughters depend descent descent-reckoning differential discussion distribution division of labor divorce domestic economic egalitarian elders Eskimo expected extradomestic female foragers frequently gardens girls Gururumba Hadza horticultural societies horticulturalists household hunters and gatherers hunting husband and wife initiation rites kin groups land lineage live male man's marriage married matrilineal matrilineal group meat men's menarche menstruation mother nonegalitarian nuclear family obligations participation patriclan patrilineage pattern physical pigs political polygynous population position prestige relationships relatively ritual royal clan seen sex relations sex roles sexual access sexual activity sexual division sexual intercourse sexually available shamans sisters situation skills social sometimes spouses subsistence symbolic tasks tion trade usually uxorilocal village virilocal warfare Washo wife's wives woman women young