AN101 Chapter Notes -Social Stratification, Villagization, Social Inequality
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Week 9 watch: india: the untouchables (filmakers library online, 2008: 57:31 minutes) Cultural anthropology: chapter ten: social stratification and groupings. Diannna shandy and karine moe: the opt-out phenomenon: women, work, and identity. So men were transients of the village and were only there for brief periods. Although masculine activities were considered more prestigious than women"s work, women were explicitly acknowledged as the sustainers of life. Women headed longhouses, descent and inheritance passed through women, and ceremonial life centered on women"s activities. Men held leadership positions outside household, on councils of the village, tribe, league of five nations, but the women of their lineages nominates them for the positions and held veto power over them. So male leadership was balance by female authority. People in 19th century commented on apparent absent of rape in that society. Even in warfare, sexual violation of female captives was virtually unknown: groupings by gender are even more evident among the mundurucu of the amazon.
