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Marriages in El Nahra were, for the large majority, predetermined. This practice in America would be seriously questioned and generally disregarded, based on the cultural ethos of individualism. Americans put a large emphasis on courting their own spouse. However, based on El Nahra?s cultural ethos of family honor, the people trusted their family to make quality decisions for them. Obviously, from an American perspective, women?s freedom of choice in this aspect of El Nahran culture is absent. However, viewing marriage cross-culturally, their priorities as a culture are different and we cannot view them through ?American'; eyes. We must realize that family is the most important aspect of each of their lives, and the preservation of the family line is of utmost priority to them.

The Tchambuli personalities ideally “oppose and complement” the Arapesh and the Mundugumor (265). The Tchambuli women were unadorned, brisk and efficient, whether in childrearing, fishing, or marketing, while the men were decorated and vain, interested in art, theater, and gossip. Mead is speaking about the personalities, or the temperamental differences between these selected societies. She realizes that in most cultures male and female behavior does conform to their traditional expectations she had experienced in her upbringing.

Yet in America, it is quite different. As stated by Paul Hockings, the Indian culture believes that a woman must obey the men in their lives in a certain order. For instance, a woman should obey her father first, next her husband, and finally her son. The head male of the family, whether it is the father, husband, or son is in charge of the entire family. The head male is also important in arranging marriages. The head male of the family, has to compensate or receive compensation at the time of a child’s marriage. In the Indian culture, the primary purpose of a marriage is to bring families together. It is usually not done out of love or romance. If a marriage is not approved or arranged by the parents involved, then the act is frowned upon. In America, marriages are not typically arranged and people do not receive compensation during a

Gender plays an important factor in determine the conduct. Women are expected to defer to men of relatively equal status and keeping themselves covered at all times. They are also expected to refrain from direct physical contact with men and to refuse all alcohol and tobacco products. However there is a great deal of physical contact between members of the same gender and with children to show closeness. Women usually eat last at meals after they have served the husband and their children. While the more westernized people use spoon or fork, food is commonly eaten with the right hand. In srilanka, there is a tradition of both men and a woman working but it is not evenly distributed .Generally, men focus on income, and dominate all aspects of business and social life. Women are responsible for cooking, taking care of children and taking care of housework. Within the home, regardless of their employment, women do all food preparation and most other domestic work. Even though, women have a great power within a family, the main authority belongs to the oldest male member in the house. Babies are kept with their mothers until they can walk or until they are school aged. Then they are encouraged to move into a bed with their siblings. Almost all mothers breast feed their children commonly through the first

While much effort is put into maintaining a fairly equal status among the people of !Kung society, this is not to suggest that gender roles are non-existent. Men and women have different roles in society everywhere, it is also seen here. In most cases women took care of the children and preparing of the food. However, the women of the !Kung culture are not limited to only be in their homes because without being able to get help from one another or socialize since these gathering activities were usually done in groups (Shostak 1981). Men also engaged in these activities. Children would be raised in village groups of other children of a wide age range of ages. Marriage was generally between a man in his twenties and a girl in her teens. Newlyweds lived in the same village as the wife's family so that she had family support during her new life.. During this time, the husband would hunt for his wife's family. This is called bridewealth, which is a transfer of wealth to the bride's family in terms of labor. So every groom is responsible to hunt not only for his family, his wife, but also for the bride's family. Even if bride were to die, the groom would still hunt for her family until he got married again. This fact shows that women are valued in this society. Often, young wives would return to their parents' houses to go to bed with the usual arrangements until they become comfortable with their husbands. If the wife or maybe even the husband never felt like he or she

In the typical Indian family, gender construction manifests itself especially in the roles of men and women in the household. As Judith Lorber so aptly put, “gender is a process of creating distinguishable social statuses for the assignment of rights and responsibilities” which in turn, creates the social differences that define a “man” and “woman” (Lorber). It is these differences that are used to construct and maintain an established gender order within the family. In the conventional Indian family, the order is such that the roles of the women in the household revolve around the roles of the men. This structure was something that I saw from an early age in my parents’ marriage. Though my parents defied the Indian norm of the arranged marriage, they still represented the quintessential model of an Indian couple in many other ways. My mother left her job to become a stay-at-home mom when I was about six years old. However, even before she left her job, she was implicitly expected by my father to shoulder most of the housework including cooking, cleaning, and caring for my older brother

When a Betsileo marries, traditionally the man as a gift gives a steer to the family of the upcoming bride. Polygyny and arranged marriages are practiced among the Betsileo tribe, as polygyny is practiced more for wealth and political status. The women of Betsileo don’t usually marry until with child, but can begin living with spouse as teenagers. By tradition, the first child is supposed to be born in to its mother's village, and the marriage isn’t official until a member from the husband's village goes to the wife's village to bring her and the child back, where they can reside virilocal. Among the tribe divorce is permitted, but very uncommon.

Arranged is a beautiful presentation, of the everyday life of women in devoted religions, and really portrays in the way they find choice in their religious devotion. So, while having the freedom to write about whatever we wish upon while watching this film, I decided to base my essay on the cultural relationship of arranged marriages between Rochel and Nasira; just two women and their friendship.

When it came to the Chipewyan, first marriages were arranged by parents, and girls were often betrothed in childhood. Patrilateral cross-cousin marriage may have been preferred. Polygyny was permitted and occurred most often among group leaders and skilled hunters. In aboriginal and early-contact times marriage was unaccompanied by ceremony, but today is attended by a Roman Catholic service. In the past the newly married couple resided with the bride's family until the birth of their first child, at which time they might take up residence with the husband's family. And when it came to divorce, it was available to both husband and wife, but was rarely done. Divorce is also not common in today’s time. Positions of leadership and authority were not there among the early times of the Chipewyan, but individuals with unique abilities were given respect and had a great influence. These men were usually hunting group and band leaders.

A long time ago, women had played a great role in life in different societies, existed in various civilizations. This role extended from covering all life-related matter to be dependent on males or rulers in the community, which she lives in. The women recessive characteristics of dependence originate from the society’s culture, beliefs, and their previous experience in life. Furthermore, history assures that the women’s role was not determined, and it was not following a specific pattern or system: it exhibits discrepancies amongst different eras and civilizations. However, it is ascertained that feminine attitudes limits to be in domestic sphere, and they are also obliged to obey roles, stated before power source representatives (i.e. kings,

1. The family line passes through the son and he looks afterhis parents in their old age. He is their retirement plan. The daughter goes off to her husband’s family and is nouse to her own after she is married. InChina, due to the one-child policy, each couple can have only one child, and becauseof the fact that each family needs all the help they can get they prefer boysto girls.

This joint family, like any social organization, must face problems such as acceptable division of work, relationships and specific family roles. These familial relationships are managed on the basis of a secular hierarchical principle. In fact, all Indians owe respect and obedience to the head of the family, who usually is the father or the oldest man of the family community. In The Gift of a Bride: A Tale of Anthropology, Matrimony and Murder by Nanda and Gregg, it is explained that, “females [are] placed under the perpetual guardianship of first their fathers and elder brothers, then their husbands.” (Nanda & Gregg 22) Thus, all the spending decisions, studies and profession, or marriage, are exclusively the responsibility of the father after the possible discussions with the other men of the family. Age and sex are the basic principles of this hierarchical system. The eldest sons enjoy greater unchallenged authority than their cadets. Of course men have more authority than women, but older married women have an important role within the family. In fact, the authority of a woman depends on the rank of her husband inside the group. Traditionally, the wife of the patriarch rules over domestic affairs and has considerable power over the other women in the community, especially her daughters- in-law.

As women are traditionally known to be child bearers, the society gives them the role of mother. This influences the type of work a woman can perform and the role she plays in the society. This conceptually distinguishes them from the male identity and masculine gender cannot acquire such roles within the society in that biologically, a man cannot bear children due to the hormonal states involved. This clearly makes childbearing to be a famine identity and the society to identify the role of masculine identity in the society. As most traditions believe that women are more of able to nurture as compared to men so feminine gender role is to care for the family by dedicating her full time rather than employment outside the home.

Joint family is a common practice among populations. Paternal side is considered higher compared to the maternal. Moreover, couples often desires to have boy over girl due to the agricultural background. Girls are considered someone else’s property since she marries and goes to other house. Most money is spent on son’s marriage compared to girls since it is taken as expenses of same house. Advancement of China and the increased literacy has huge impact on these normal rituals.

Females do give birth to the children, but in these societies, a female is more like a piece of property than of heritage. Marriage in these societies is usually based on the best dowry, rather than being based on love like most modern marriages.