HIS326Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Matrilocal Residence, Aboriginal Australians, Usera
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Economic organization and the position of women among the iroquois . Reading #1 & tutorial #1 by judith k. brown. By comparing ethnohistoric and ethnographic data relating to the iroquois of. North america and the bema of northern rhodesia, it is easier to understand the relationship between the position of women and their economic role. While investigating the relationship between the position of women and their economic role, three possibilities are suggested: For example: if the two tribes are removed from each other, regarding time, location and tradition, the bemba were importantly matrilineal and matrilocal and the women of bemba enjoyed high status. There was a difference in status of these women of both. Iroquois have been treated as homogeneous group by most authors: 1. Lowie: determining women"s status economic considerations could be offset and even negativated by historical factors: 2.
