Part 1: Mate and Marriage Selection Article 1. Use examples from the reading to show how the different routes to marriage often underscore a culture's beliefs about women and gender roles. 2. Explain how the rules of exogamy and endogamy limit your choice of a mate in U.S. society. Is there really such a thing […]
Discuss the development of social classes and hierarchy in Eurasian cultures, family honor, and women’s connections to property.
Anthropologists have noted connections between a woman’s “purity,” the development of social classes and hierarchy in Eurasian cultures, family honor, and women’s connections to property. Summarize how different anthropologists have explained these connections (note: pay particular attention to Stone’s discussion of Goody, Schlegel and Ortner in developing your response). What contemporary Euro-American dating/courtship and marriage […]