Why did anthropology pay little attention to women prior to the 1970s?

A) Anthropologists assumed that men represented women's voices.
B) Women and men live quite segregated lives in most societies.
C) The majority of practicing anthropologists was male and had little access to working with women in other societies.
D) Men's roles were much more public and more easily studied.
E) All of these choices are correct.


E

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The status systems of chiefdoms and states are similar in that both are based on differential access to resources. Nevertheless, a key distinction is that

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