ANTH 2000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ethnography, Everyday Food, Patrilocal Residence
Document Summary
Caste system of india: castes stratified groups in which membership is ascribed at birth, belief that intercaste sexual unions lead to ritual impurity for the higher caste partner helps to maintain endogamy and ensure the pure ancestry of high caste children, castes are endogamous, but many are internally subdivided into exogamous lineages, abolished in 1968. The division of labor and gender: relationship between gender, economic contribution and status, foragers: least gender stratification, horticulturalists: women main producers, yet, not always is this relationship true, high status, symbolic meaning of work. Mandurucu" of brazil: status is based on symbolic value of work; hunting gives men more status because it is more valued, needed, prestigious (cid:149) (cid:149) (cid:149) (cid:149) Gender among agriculturalists: women typically are not the primary cultivators, social changes accompanying agriculture affected women negatively, women"s domestic role is devalued in comparison, female isolation, control over female sexuality to men"s role in the public sphere.
