ANTH-110 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sedentism, Matrilateral, Nationstates
9 Aug 2016
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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 equality and inequality: the sexual division of labor and gender stratification . Hunters and gatherers used to form the bulk of the human population, but today only a small number remain. They are found in relatively isolated regions; they possess simple technology and therefore make little effort to alter the environment in which they live. In societies in which hunting and fishing predominate, the status of women is lower. e) Give two cultural examples where this is not necessarily the case. Despite the common assumption that men hunt and women gather, in some foraging societies, the division of labor is not sharply defined. This often provides the basis for the highest degree of egalitarianism.
