List two of the ways Peggy Sanday argues that fraternities in the United States create and reinforce social bonds among the members, and one way that they are similar to the Amazonian groups described in the same section of the text
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer will include:
1. Initiation rituals were found to create bonds through the victimization of women and the shared experience of pain or abuse on the part of prospective members.
2. Gang rape of a woman served to reinforce a sense of unity among members.
3. This is similar to groups of men in some Amazonian cultures that have a separate space and may gang rape a woman who enters it.
4. This is similar to the U.S. fraternities described in Peggy Sanday's work that create a sense of shared identity through the abuse of women.
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