ANTH 2040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: All The Same
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Friends of sagr criticized him for having more than one wife. Gateefa gave birth to 9th baby azza helped. Despite gateefa & azza"s differences they had a closeness and dependency perhaps as women who give birth, perhaps as women bound together by sharing a household, daily life, and a history. She"s our girl and no one can take her. sagr"s father"s cousin. Azza had been treated differently from gateefa and safiyya (co-wives of sagr) Azza was loud, often swore, and never sprayed. Sagr treated wives differently and spent more money on azza. Even sagr found it difficult to live peacefully with his 3rd wife. Azza & sagr stopped sleeping together religious authority told sagr he needed to take her back as wife before her pilgrimage. Sagr kept agreeing to take azza back because he wanted all his children together with him. Sagr admitted to having 2 wives that didn"t work out.