sex roles
...les” makes the point that in one society “fears violence.” And therefore, a man would never hit a woman. I’d be willing to wager in that society, a woman would also never hit a man. Some societies seem to have this sense of sexual identity. A sense of what it is to be a man, or a woman. But the Baka did not seem to identify them selves in the same way. They seemed to think of themselves more as part of the group. That is not to say that no distinction was seen between male and female, rather that the distinction was factual rather than social or value based. The articles also seem to leave out one seemingly obvious fact. Patriarchal societies, have achieved greater material and Darwinian success than egalitarian, or matriarchal societies. But there are again two levels to the question; one, have in point of fact more societies ...