Anthropologists Studying Gender Cross-Culturally Have Documented What Interesting Feature Among

question 42

Multiple Choice

Anthropologists studying gender cross-culturally have documented what interesting feature among some Native American groups such as the Cheyenne, Kaska, Klamath, and Mohave?

• A) In addition to male/female genders, they recognize a third gender in which a person who is biologically male or female takes on the social roles and behaviors of the opposite gender.
• B) Women in these groups take on more leadership roles than in other foraging societies.
• C) In these societies, women do the hunting while men stay close to home with the children.
• D) Men in these groups are allowed to marry their first cousins due to low numbers of possible marriage partners.

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