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All of the following are important functions of female initiation rites in matrilocal societies EXCEPT:
a. they publicly announce the status change from girl to adult woman.
b. they prepare girls for emotional separati...
Cultural Anthropology Chapter 10 Test Bank Solution Manual Already Passed
All of the following are important functions of female initiation rites in matrilocal societies EXCEPT:
a. they publicly announce the status change from girl to adult woman.
b. they prepare girls for emotional separation from their mothers.
c. they emphasize connections between beauty, sexuality, and power.
d. they teach girls how to be effective adults.
e. they provide them with the hard work necessary to assist in gathering wealth. - Answers b. they
prepare girls for emotional separation from their mothers.
All of the following conditions tend to increase the gender inequality in agricultural societies and cause
women to lose significant social status EXCEPT:
a. wet rice agricultural production.
b. the advent of foreign aid and development programs.
c. the use of plows and mechanization in agriculture.
d. involvement in the cash economy.
e. increasing numbers of children. - Answers a. rice agricultural production.
An alternative gender role in Polynesia is called:
a. transvesti.
b. mahu.
c. hijra.
d. two-spirit.
e. eunich. - Answers b. mahu.
Anthropologist Ann Dunham's research in Indonesia showed that:
, a. there was a scarcity of capital in the small Indonesian villages; for development projects to succeed,
local women needed to be involved in many types of market ventures.
b. there was plenty of capital available at the local level, but the men were not interested in pursuing
craft initiatives for a livelihood; development projects needed to consider other options.
c. development projects had to involve the whole Indonesian family in order for them to succeed
because women were subordinate to their husbands.
d. craft cooperatives did not yield as much income and economic security as wet rice agriculture;
development projects needed to focus on developing better agricultural techniques.
e. there is a scarcity of land that prevents women from being involved in development projects. -
Answers a. there was a scarcity of capital in the small Indonesian villages; for development projects to
succeed, local women needed to be involved in many types of market ventures.
Colonial foreign aid and development programs often fail because they:
a. increase productivity in urban areas but neglect rural ones.
b. increase male productivity but neglect the economic role of women.
c. fail to adequately address the roots of poverty.
d. fail to recognize the value of global marketing.
e. fail to recognize the potential of village women. - Answers b. increase male productivity but neglect
the economic role of women.
Female rites of passage tend to be performed:
a. at a young girl's birth.
b. at menarche.
c. at menopause.
d. after a young woman becomes pregnant for the first time.
e. at the time of first sexual intimacy. - Answers b. at menarche.
In foraging societies, an important source of women's power is:
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