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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
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Subject: Re: Re: Why male dominance?
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> > 	If a culture is to survive when pressured by adjacent cultures, it must
> > respond, and respond with aggression.  This aggression may take the form of
> > open warfare of or more subtle hostility, but it nonetheless represents means
> > of coercion.
> 
> Hmmm.  There have been some cultures that were very non-aggressive.  The
> Hopi come to mind, but I may be wrong.  Does anyone offhand know what the
> status of women in such cultures is?  My recollection is that women do
> indeed have much more equal status.
> 

	The Hopi were/are a matriarchial society. Several generations of
women in the same family live together and bring in husbands - men marry
out into other women's groupings.

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