are paleos more egalitarian then later socs, in wealth , status , power and gender?
I believe that they are not egalitarian in wealth , status and power and gender .
they have the power to heal with a trance-medicine is that power or status ? I think it could go for both because have the power to heal you have to go to a specific person to get healed but a lot of people do not want to get heal because it hurts , so again is that more power or status ? I think power because you have to have the courage to heal the people. "when you have lovers one brings you something , others bring you something else" (pg. 49) that is status to me because she is saying she has the power to have people bring her all sorts of different types of things , that means she is in higher status . in gender there is a lot of equality that I have found this one is the most fair to me because its not all up to the guys which most people believe that it is. "when you are women you don't just sit around " (49) both can heal...hurtful"(49) those quotes are saying in the things they do they don't just have one gender do them they have both gender doing everything . they are not egalitarian in wealth at all because the wealthier are stingy and basically don't care about the "bush people " which are people that do not have anything . " I have no goats I have no cattle I am a person who owns nothing ."(47) paleos are not egalitarian because they are not all equal.
That was pretty interesting. You do bring up a very valid point. No matter how much you try, there is no real such thing as complete equality. Just as we don't all hold the same talents, some are in fact better than others with certain things and some are just born to be good at specific things. I agreed with this idea from the start of the assignment but I do agree that the earlier humans did have more equality than we do now, but that is just life. It will always be that way.
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