SOAN 3680 Lecture 2: Lecture 2

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 3680
• Professor: Sally Humphries

Document Summary

Land was not divided up equally among sons and daughters. Typically in rural areas the land is divided up between sons and daughters. Assuming there(cid:495)s (cid:884) sons, there should be (cid:883) to inherit land and (cid:883) for the. (igh infant mortality rates (cid:523)is that why land isn(cid:495)t being divided fairly? (cid:524) Regarding sen"s rights and unfreedoms, the high rates of child/infant mortality would be a huge concern and evidence of an unfreedom monastery. Polyandry was practiced in the past: typically brothers sharing a wife, contributed to low population growth and high infant/child mortality rates. Most of the tension is in the form of western development. Influences like urbanization were having an affect on the system. Now in ladeck, theres a policy that tries to increase population/fertility rate. So, women are being urged to have more kids. Will lead to problems in the future among buddhists (cid:523)b/c there(cid:495)s a sense that they(cid:495)re being crowded out b/c of.