Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site tellab1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!tellab1!heahd From: heahd@tellab1.UUCP (Dan Wood) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: A news from "Another Culture", a Korean Feminist Group Message-ID: <256@tellab1.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 09:39:36 EDT Article-I.D.: tellab1.256 Posted: Fri Jun 15 09:39:36 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 16-Jun-84 03:56:48 EDT References: <921@kaist.UUCP>, <583@ihuxt.UUCP> Organization: Tellabs, Inc., Lisle, Ill. Lines: 32 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. -- /\ /\ / /~~~~~~\ \ ( ( \ / ) ) Yrs. in Fear and Loathing, \ [~] [~] / The Blue Buffalo \ / || \ / Haunted by the - G \ /||\ / ~~~ o h \(^^)/ ) z o `--'\ ( n s \) o t of G ...!ihnp4!tellab1!heahd