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• Bride Wealth


  A gift from the husband and his kin group to the wife and her kin group before, at, or after marriage. This legitimizes children born to the women as members of the husband’s descent group. Also referred to asbrideprice. Compare withdowry.
• Domestic-Public Dichotomy


  A dichotomy contrasting the women's role in the home and the men's role in public life, with a corresponding social devaluation of women's work and social worth.
• Dowry


  A marriage exchange in which the wife’s kin group provides gifts to the husband’s kin group. Compare withbridewealth.
• Foragers (hunter–gatherers)


  People who collect food that is available in nature (fruits, vegetables, nuts, animals, and fish) either by gathering, hunting, or fishing, rather than producing it. Foragers have also been referred to as hunter-gathers.
• gender division of labour


  The way societies allocate different work or activities for males and females.
• Gender stratification


  The system of unequal access of men and women to a society's resources, privileges, and opportunities, and the differential control over these resources and privileges according to gender.
• Horticulture (extensive agriculture)


  Growing domesticated crops in gardens with simple hand tools and having plots lie fallow for varying lengths of time. Also referred to asextensive agriculture. Compare withintensive agriculture.
• Intensive Agriculture


  A form of cultivation that uses plows, draft animals, irrigation, and fertilizer to: bring much land under cultivation at one time, use it year after year, and produce significant crop surpluses. Compare withhorticulture(extensive agriculture).
• Pastoralism


  A food-producing strategy based on the care of herds of domesticated animals, typically practiced by nomadic or semi-nomadic peoples.
• Primary Production


  Primary production involves food-getting activities such as gathering, hunting, fishing, herding, and agriculture. Compare withsecondary production.
• Secondary production


  Secondary production involves activities related to preparing and processing foods for eating or storing. Compare withprimary production.
• Female Genital Cutting


  Excision or remova; of part or all of the external female genitalia.
• Female Infanticide


  Direct or indirect killing of an infant due to the female sex of the infant.
• Gestational Surrogacy


  The surrogate gestates the couple’s embryo (in–vitrofertilization). Compare withtraditional surrogacy.
• Indirect infanticide


  Prolonged processes, such as food deprivation or failure to tend to an illness, that brings about the death of an infant.
• Dowry


  Marriage exchange where wife's kin group provides gifts to husbands kin group. Often part of hypergamous marriage.
• Honour Killing


  Woman is killed for her actual/perceived immoral behaviour which considered to have brought dishonour to her family.
• Hypergamy


  Marriage of low-status women to high-status men.
• State


  Complex sociopolitical system involving a large stratified population; a state system that holds and defends a territory.
• Development


  Planned Cultural change, usually directed from outside. Often reffered to as economic development or international development.
• Missionization


  The imposition of Christian culture. Associated with colonization.
• Life stage transition


  The transition from one age group or category to another over the course of a lifetime.
• As discussed in the video "Umoja, the Village Where Men Are Forbidden", why are men attacking the village of Umoja?

  Men consider women their property and if they can't have her, they killl her.
• According to the introduction to "Equality and inequality: the sexual division of labor and gender stratification", in which of the following types of societies do we see a general decline in the status of women and a relegation to the domestic realm?

  A society that practices intensive agriculture
• According to the introduction to "Equality and inequality: the sexual division of labor and gender stratification", which of the following statements is NOT true about horticultural societies?

  Men are in charge of all crop cultivation.
• According to the introduction to "Equality and inequality: the sexual division of labor and gender stratification", in pastoral societies that are patrilineal and patrilocal, the genders are

  segregated & stratified.
• According to the assigned reading "Gender, horticulture , and the division of labor on Vanatinai", a reputation as a "big man" or a "big woman" may be gaineda.by any one act of generosity.


  through a cycle of personal exchanges where an individual takes on new social responsibilities until they are known for their wealth, skill, and knowledge of exchange.
• According to the introduction to "Equality and inequality: the sexual division of labor and gender stratification", in foraging societies where gathered foods contribute more to the daily diet,

  men and women have equal status.
• According to the assigned reading "Woman the hunter: the Agta", which of the following is NOT one of the social areas needing to be examined to determine an Agta female's control over herself in non-economic matters?

  Enforcement of polygyny
• According to the assigned reading "Natural birth at the turn of the twenty-first century: implications for gender", which of the following is NOT significant about Giselle's informed choice use of technology in regards to the political goals of midwifery

  It may be seen as focusing on "women's agency": what women do rather than what is done to them
• According to the introduction to "Gender, politics and reproduction", which of the following is NOT one of the beliefs and practices that reveal how reproductive behaviour is culturally patterned?

  The insignificance of menopause
• According to the assigned reading "Surrogate motherhood: rethinking biological models, kinship, and family", what is most often assumed to be the primary motivation for a woman to be a surrogate mother?

  remuneration
• According to the assigned reading "Natural birth at the turn of the twenty-first century: implications for gender", which of the following is a component of the "midwifery model of pain"?

  The pain of labor is not continuous like most other pain. The pain of labor is "pain with purpose. Labor pain is universal: women have been doing this for centuries, our bodies are designed to do it well
• What does "Women are the life givers, and men are the death givers" mean in the Vanatinai Society?

  Taboo for women to hunt using spears, women use special magic and petition to powerful ancestor and place spirits to make war and peace. Life giving is more important (breast feed for up to 3 years, child care is primary responsibility of women, but others also carry babies and toddlers around)
• The Umoja


  village in the Samburu district of Kenya, and men aren't allowed. Many women here have been raped or maltreated. Umoja was founded by women who were raped by British soldiers and then abandoned by their husbands. Husbands and men come to Umoja to rape and kill their wife because of jealousy.
• Issues women of Umoja would like to see addressed

  don't want british army to come back and do training because they don't want anymore rape, petition to the british government - demanding justice, listen and help children, men need to be put into education and gender equality
• According to the assigned reading "Woman the hunter: the Agta", which of the following is one of the tasks associated with Agta women?

  Hunting, fishing, roots, plants.
• In the assigned reading "Woman the hunter: the Agta", the authors discuss whether or not males and females are actually equal in Agta society. What are the two concepts the authors address?

  Equality as equated with decision-making power and control over one's own production, and the female's control over herself in non-economic matters.
• According to the introduction to "Equality and inequality: the sexual division of labor and gender stratification", in horticultural societies what may be the basis of male domination over women?


  male control over valued property and involvement in warfare.
• How is reproductive behaviour culturally patterned?

  menstrual beliefs and practicesrestrictions on the circumstances where sexual activity may occurrepresentations and practices surrounding pregnancy, labor, and the postpartum periodunderstanding and management of infertilitysignificance of menopause.