ANTH 212 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Plains Indians, Clitoridectomy, Intown Atlanta
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Many young men reluctant to marry but elders say it is their duty. Regulates the (cid:373)ales" se(cid:454)ual relatio(cid:374)ships: association purpose: Agree to take scrupulous care neither to copulate with a woman not to a(cid:272)(cid:272)ept food fro(cid:373) a (cid:449)o(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s ha(cid:374)ds. Then take part in the sangaii and can dance with females. Men housing common and occasionally women housing common in melanesia, Poro and sande (west africa: all associations have some secrecy, this one particularly secret, speak mande located in what is now liberia, sierra leone, ivory coast, and. Guinea (illegal in guinea: membership is public and nonvoluntary; all men must belong to the poro, all women must belong to the sande. Secular: town chief, neighborhood and kin group headmen, and elders. Common in the pacific, north and south america, various parts of africa. May be voluntary, in africa secret associations usually involve political activity. Strengthen the hand of existing political authority.
