Among societies exhibiting the patrilineal-patrilocal complex in highland Papua New Guinea,

A. women govern the extra-domestic distribution of prestige items.
B. the population pressure on strategic resources is relaxed.
C. women fear contacts, including sexual intercourse, with men.
D. household productivity is decreased by polygyny, because a man must provide for more than one wife.
E. women remain the primary producers of subsistence crops.


Answer: E

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