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From: heahd@tellab1.UUCP (Dan Wood)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: A news from "Another Culture", a Korean Feminist Group
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Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 09:39:36 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 15 09:39:36 1984
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   I'm not sure what living in harmony with nature had to do with it, but the
impressions about native american sex roles are mistaken. While the sexual
stratification among amertican tribes is indeed pronounced women are by no
means "owned" by their husbands. In many tribes divorce was effected by the
*woman* placing her husbands belongings outside the lodge. Of course the
husband also had the option of requesting his wife to return to her father's
lodge. Property was generally owned by the women of a tribe, all a man owned
was his own personnal belongings. Virtually all tribes were matrelinial (i.e.,
desent was traced through one's mother).

   As for the pronounced sexual stratification, in a primitive tribal
situation, such stratification was necessary to survival. A women who is
either pregnant or already a mother would have a very hard time hunting wild
game. Therefore, while the men were out hunting, the women stayed in camp and
performed more sedentary tasks. The same is true of all hunter/gatherer
cultures.

  I think the authour of the previous article has watched too many episodes of
Rawhide.  One should study a cultuer before condeming it.
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