"The Notion That Europeans Were Better Equipped to Manage and Control

question 31

Multiple Choice

"The notion that Europeans were better equipped to manage and control land and women has been a salient feature of colonial discourses, one that has been used to mark indigenous populations as "savage" in relation to "civilized" Europeans and European men as more properly masculine than Native men. Its effects have been violent, as European colonizers were threatened by the relative _______ and _______ organization of the indigenous societies they encountered."

• A) socialist, patrilineal
• B) egalitarianism, matrifocal
• C) hierarchical, intersectional
• D) none of the above

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