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?

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.

DQ2:  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 Six to
reinforce your point of view.