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Tuesday, December 9,1975
University Daily Kansan
Carib women have strong role
Although their societal rules allow women to have only one mate at a time while man may have many, women are a strong, aggressive force among the Black Carls of lavington, Guatemala, anthropologist Nanci L. Gonzalez said last night.
"Gonzalez, program director of anthropology for the National Science Foundation," he wrote. "Mating and Mortality; Social and Biological Implications of Serial Monogamy." The speech was sponsored by the anthropology and womens' studies departments.
Gonzalez, who studied the Black Caribs in 1966 and again this year, said that traditional, legally-tied marriage as we know it is a rarity in that society, largely because of the extreme poverty among the people.
This poverty has caused many of the men to leave Guatemala to look for jobs elsewhere, she said. If a man did marry and left in order to support his family, the possibility of his finding another woman would become traditional marriage disadvantageous.
Gonzalez also said that the people adapted their strict Catholicism to their own needs by rationalizing that since the Church forbids divorce, there's no need for it.
Multiple mating has been increasing over the years, Gonzalez said. Among women over 40, 37 per cent had children by more than one man. Among women under 40, 35 per cent had children by more than one man.
She said that women who have more than one mate get pregnant more often and have
more children who live to reproductive age. Therefore, having more than one mate seems to correlate with higher fertility and explains the increase in multiple mating.
The multiple mating is also advantageous, she said, because genes are dispersed in different directions, causing variation in the number of sickle cell anemia, being passed along.
Birth control is beginning to be practiced,
Gonzalez said. Most of the women using it
are the younger women who haven't had
many children yet, rather than the women
with many children. She said a new value
system seemed to be developing.
She said that another way the society was changing was in the expansion of women's roles.
building houses and even migrating. She had been told in 1936 that if a woman fished, all the fish would die. They now fish, but I call me there aren't any fish any more."
The women are now joining the Black Carib men in New York City in order to make money they can send back to Livingston. Most women work in the garment industry and most men work in restaurant jobs or as stewardess on the docks.
The Black Carib women have always been a strong force in the society, she said, but only in her recent visit have they been assuming male roles, such as fishing.
Gonzalez said that the people who have migrated to tarmar more often than their ancestors do.
But she said that one man, who had never left but was about to do so, complained of having to marry. When she asked him why, he answered, "Everbody knows you can't go traveling around the world with a woman who's not your wife."
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the diagnostic information, could be printed, he said.
The course selection guide would be similar to the original Feedback booklet of the course.
But Calgair said that such non-technical information wasn't likely to come from
About the present Feedback system,
Calgaard said, "It seems to me that
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course is like; what pattern of grading
the instructor uses; whether the lectures
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things."
Embry agreed that students should support Feedback and that Feedback should be used.
There must be information about the
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Embry said that technical information should be presented in char or graph form 85.
But, he said, "The assumption that students only want to know gul-level things like 'How many papers am I going to have to do?' does not appear to be correct.
"The view that students are comming animals who seek only the path of least resistance."
Citing data from Feedback analyses, Embry said students chose a course that required more work and was challenging. The course was an "easy grade" but wasn't challenging.
The re-creation of a student-run Feedback (originally, Feedback was operated by students) would cost between $20,000 and $40,000. And therefore, he predicted it wouldn't likely.
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