ANTHROP 4S03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Institutional Racism, Royal Canadian Legion, Social Inequality
18 Oct 2016
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All human societies have had a division of labour. Women bear children and men place importance on their sexual prowess. Division of labour along gender lines in all human groups. The iroquoian society was divided into two parts: sedentary women, who lived in their community year-round, and nomadic men, who were seasonally absent. The women lived in the villages and were blood relatives to each other. They grew corn, kidney beans, and squash, which the huron relied on for subsistence. The men built houses and palisades to protect the villages, and they helped women clear the fields. Hunting, fishing, trading, warring, and diplomacy were all pursued at some distance from the village. As a consequence, men were transients in the village. In this setting, masculine activities were (cid:272)o(cid:374)side(cid:396)ed (cid:373)o(cid:396)e p(cid:396)estigious tha(cid:374) (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s (cid:449)o(cid:396)k, (cid:271)ut women were acknowledged as the sustai(cid:374)e(cid:396)s of life. This lifestyle of (cid:862)sepa(cid:396)ate (cid:271)ut e(cid:395)ual(cid:863) (cid:272)ould a(cid:272)(cid:272)u(cid:396)ately des(cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:271)e (cid:396)elatio(cid:374)s between the sexes in this traditional iroquoian society.
