ANTH-110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Bride Price, Negrito, Dowry
14 Dec 2017
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Cross cultural research aims not only to describe the range of female activities (eg workplace vs domestic), but also examine the implications of these activities for the status of women within society. 2: briefly describe the typical hunter-gather or foraging society. -most egalitarian: men hunt and women gather: what four reasons have been proposed for this division of labour, the variability in the supply of game, 2) the differential skills for hunting and gathering, Women tend to be of lower status than the men. Thus increased female productive abilities (ie responsibility for food source) leads to increased gender equality; in addition there is no political or mass economic realm in which power struggles might occur e) Give two cultural examples where this is not necessarily the case. No: less sharply defined roles lead to greater egalitarianism. Among the tiwi of austrailia both men and women participate in both hunting and gathering.
