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Internet Exerices1. Visit the Tlingit site at http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/croads/tlingit.html, looking particularly for evidence of the accumulation of wealth, social stratification, and gender roles.
- Briefly compare the information at this site with that provided in the text. From these two sources, what do you know about Tlingit gender relations?
- Can you find evidence of the contention that high ranked women have more influence and authority than lower ranked men in stratified societies?
- Can we know with certainty what Tlingit women's lives were like prior to European contact? What obstacles are there to this sort of knowledge?
2. Traditional Hawai'ian society is an important example of a stratified society, and has that in common with traditional European society. The first Europeans to visit the islands were taken somewhat aback by traditional Hawai'ian gender roles, however. Visit http://www.saunalahti.fi/penelope/Feminism/hawaii.html to learn more about this encounter.
- Briefly describe gender roles in traditional Hawai'ian society.
- What differences were particularly shocking to Europeans?
- Why were these differences significant to Europeans?
- How were gender roles transformed by contact with Europeans?
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