ARTH 232 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Puebloan Peoples, Iroquois, Physiognomy
12 Apr 2016
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Leads culture to change: culture/social structure disjunction, diversity- enriches culture. Native american women: pueblo cultures, american southwest, 250k, 100 villages/towns, 7 language groups, sexual division of labor(women"s work-men"s work, men- trade, defense, warfare, frame houses/buildings, women- pottery, clothing, shoes. In charge of all that goes on inside home__ plaster, paint: pueblo marriages do occur(easily divorced/common, women"s spirituality/sexuality are interlinked, matrilineal & matrifocal. Husband leaves family__ goes to live with wife. Matrilineal & matrifocal: arrival of europeans in america, who left europe and why, __spanish, french, dutch, swedes, russians, english, push factors: Morally and intellectually inferior to men (physically inferior to: patriarchy- Husbands are culturally given control over wives children in the household: coverture- Woman"s legal identity subordinated to their husbands (can"t own property in our name, hold public office controls body of wife, can"t be sued) When husband dies-- all property is given to eldest son. If woman doesn"t get married typically move in with brother.
