D1.
Describe the correlation between bride wealth and stability of
marriage. How is your understanding of this relationship impacted
by the status of women in pastoral societies?
Reflect on marriage in current North American societies. Is there
pressure to stay with a spouse from members of our kinship groups?
What factors contribute significantly to the stability of marriages
in your culture? Use terminology from the text and ideas from your
own life to support your answers.
D2.
As we have learned, an emic
perspective is the insiders understanding / perception of why a
culture may do as they do while etic is
the perspective of the outsider.
Explain the impact forced and voluntary conversion to Christianity
has had on the leadership structure and social control of chiefdoms
using one of these two perspectives in
which to make your argument. Include specific examples and
terminology from Chapter 6 to reinforce your point of view.
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