What makes Patricia Draper’s fieldwork among the Ju/’hoansi so insightful regarding the relationships among economy, gender roles, and stratification?


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Because she studied both foragers and a group of former foragers who had become sedentary, she could draw comparisons between the two (she found that in the sedentary group, gender roles became more rigidly defined and that eventually women's status declined).

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