Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!ihuxt!martillo From: martillo@ihuxt.UUCP (Yehoyaqim Martillo) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: A news from "Another Culture", a Korean Feminist Group Message-ID: <585@ihuxt.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 11:53:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxt.585 Posted: Fri Jun 15 11:53:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 16-Jun-84 04:04:00 EDT References: <921@kaist.UUCP>, <583@ihuxt.UUCP> <256@tellab1.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 29 > 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. I do not watch TV. Obviously we are talking about two different classes of women. There were women who lived with their own tribe and women who were captured settlers or who were captured from another tribe. -- Yehoyaqim Shemtob Martillo (An Equal Opportunity Offender)