HIST 2Q93 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: White Supremacy, Patrilineality, Concubinage
29 Nov 2017
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An indigenous world: a historian"s dilemma: the problem of sources, a look at sex roles and gender relations. A historian"s dilemma: the problem of sources: the largest problem they face is that the written primary sources that we have come from the colonizers and the conquests, written sources are the voices of europeans, christopher columbus voice, Instead of assuming that the european"s observations are accurate, look from the perspective of an indigenous individual who is undergoing these experiences as well: aztec society were empires, some societies were organized in villages. In some, women headed households and trapped animals: women helped with hunting and men helped with the household. Interrelationship with the types of roles: women worked without comparison more than the men, the women did are the serial tasks, they work harder than the men even though they are not forced to do so. Social status and property rights: property was passed from father to son.
