An example of demography from the main camp at the Dobe area waterhole in 1964 had 9 elders (5 males and 4 females), 15 average adults (8 male and 7 females) and 4 children (2 males and 2 females). ... Mating among the Ju/"hoansi is done for the most part in through the monogamous marriage between a male and a female. ... Only about 5% of the Ju marriages were polygamous, this is usually done among males who have a great reputation as strong healers and multiple wives are seen as a symbol of their strength (Lee, pg. 85). ... Males are usually married between the ages of 18 and 25 but have b...

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Since the year 221 BC, the philosophy of China has always been male dominance over women. ... Now "decent was traced through the male." ... These sacrifices could only be made by male descendants, and this meant that a male heir was necessary to perform the rituals and continue the family line." (Tan p. 13) Parents also valued male children for two reasons. ... It was believed that a woman's body was not to be seen by a man. ...

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India's nation-state is widely inhomogeneous throughout history between both male and female social status in society. ... Within this essay the extent of change will be realized, yet limited to continued male empowering traditions. ... After being found by her husband's family, she was dragged to the funeral pyre, where her husband's body was being cremated, she was thrown onto the fire to die'.8 This is the pinnacle of male expectations for women at the time. ... The women movement in India did not solely focus on male supremacy to the exclusion of foreign domination as c...

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It must be remembered that any form of polygyny is never practiced throughout the entire community: there cannot exist a community in which every man would have several wives because this would entail a huge surplus of females over males (Malinowski 1962). ... While this theory is of historical interest, there exists no empirical support for the greater sex drive of the male, nor is there any reason to expect the male sex drive to vary from one culture to another. ... Non-monogamy is reproductively savvy for males in order to spread their genes, and for females in order to improve the hardines...

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In society today, people are faced with having premarital sex. Premarital sex is when a women and man have sex before they are married. The controversy over premarital sex has never been more profound than it is today. The very mention of the word brings forth radically different reactions. At one time, the very subject of sex was taboo, and then the sexual revolution was introduced as a time when people were unrestrained and open to explore their sexuality. ...

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Traditionally, Vietnamese males and females are not allowed to date. ... As in other Asian countries it is an accepted form of male entertainment. ... (Vietnamese Adventures 2) As portrayed previously, there are numerous cultural differences between Vietnamese dating and American dating, the main being that the male is required to confront the family of the female. ...

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There is no explicit rule forbidding close male kin to marry into the same households, but it is deemed inadvisable to do so. 5. ... They come and sit by his body throughout the night, blowing trumpets, the squeaky notes of which are intended to represent the cri...

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When a woman's husband dies before she dies it seems as though her life has no purpose to go on, and many chose to practice the ritual of burying or burning themselves alive along with their husbands bodies. ... The ceremony continued on with her husband laying in the mud she performed some tasks which included washing the body and walk around it three times. The dead body was then placed in the proper position and she sat next to it still calm. ... Then one day as a last resort she poured kerosene over her body hoping to scare them instead her husband lit a match and threw it on her, she...

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Preface Marriage and families founded through marriage constitute the basic cells of the society. It involves a multi-layer relationship between neighbors and other elements in the community, and it is so regarded by the Chinese as the top issue of the morality of human kind. Wedding ceremony is the...

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Naylor's description of Nedeed with his "short squat body" and protruding eyes,""(3) conjures up an evil and almost satanic picture in the reader's mind. The original Luther Nedeed passed down not only his name to all the subsequent generations of males, but also his disturbing physical characteristics. ...

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Changes in Women and Marriage- Changes in Women and Marriage- Abstract This paper presents an in-depth discussion about the changing relationship between women and marriage. Economic factors, a rise in feminism, parents" influence, attitudes about sex, educational pursuits, and divorce statistics are discussed and their influence on women's attitudes toward marriage are explored. Cultural changes that have impacted women's lives are also examined. The purpose of the paper is to explore the changes affecting women, their attitudes toward marriage, and their expectations of marriag...

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The Ideal of Womanhood in Kate Chopin's The Awakening Throughout most of history women generally have had fewer rights than men. The Women's Rights Movement began in cities of the northeast in the early to mid-1800's and soon emerged in cities of the Midwest and western states. It was not ...

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For a long time, the woman has assumed a secondary role in the first generation of Indian English male writing such as R.K.Narayan, Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand. ... Only after the children are raised and married off does a woman begin to enjoy the fruits of love " from the children, now parents themselves, who gratefully realize what she gave them, and from a husband whose years if not his attitudes force him into co-dependence as his body gets frail and tired. ...

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"For the love among Christians should be the same kind of love as that of every member of the body for every other one each one accepting the faults of the other, sympathizing them, and doing everything possible to help him," is a quote said by Luther (Reference 12 pg. 98). ...

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