ANTH-110 Study Guide - Final Guide: Child Care, Primogeniture, Filial Piety

• School: MacEwan University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH-110
• Professor: Leslie Dawson

Document Summary

Note: these review questions are not graded but rather are designed to help you pull out the pertinent information in each reading and to reinforce your learning. Review questions: introduction to domestic worlds and public worlds . Introduction to domestic worlds and public worlds. (pp. A paradigm relating recurrent aspects of psychology and cultural and social organization to an opposition between the domestic" orientation of women and the extradomestic or. The domestic-public model suggests that women"s status is highest in societies in which the public and domestic spheres are only weakly differentiated. Women"s status is lowest in those societies where there is a firm differentiation between domestic and public spheres of activity and where women are isolated from one another and placed under a single man"s authority, in the home. Nelson indicates that women play a crucial role as structural links between kinship groups in societies in which family and kinship are fundamental institutions.