The author uses the Nayar of southwest India to illustrate that rules about sexual access can be highly variable

Nayar women:

a. are married to their brothers.
b. go through stages of sexual access.
c. have two husbands.
d. do not get married.
e. do not have children.


ANSWER: b

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