Mundurucu see the relations between the sexes as one of opposition and challenge. This is based on:

a. the high cost of bridewealth.
b. the power and dominance women hold in the political sphere.
c. their practice of polyandry.
d. their religious belief system.
e. their subsistence system.


ANSWER: d

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