HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Squaw, Patrilineality
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More women than men in labor, provide 70% of calories for community. Trading and warfare happens in summer bc it"s hard to travel in winter. Bc they do all work, vs delicate european women. When men do work they view it as stature. When women do it it show oppression. Powhatan views john smith as pathetic defendants. John smith thinks he"s conquering the powhatans. European women"s labor don"t get taxed bc men cover them. Even free black women are still taxed, if she marries a man, he still has to pay tax on her. William byrd does no actual activity, he doesn"t cook or work. He looks after his people , his slaves. Martha (not enslaved) does nonstop labor, as told in her diary. Women can fill in for men"s labor, but men will not fill in for women. You can"t build a society without reproduction. Partus sequitor ventrum means offspring follow mother"s status.
