Anthropology 102 - Cultural Anthropology » Summer 2022 » Unit 6 Masai Women Micro-assessment

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Question #1
Since women have little property, what do they sometimes give as gifts to co-wives or mothers-in-law
A.   children
B.   gourds
C.   cattle horns
D.   chalk drawings
E.   beaded jewelry
Question #2
According to myth, why did women stay home and let their herd animals go wild
A.   husbands barred the front of huts with dirt and sticks
B.   Ogun tricked the first woman by laying elephant dung outside her hut
C.   to eat a kidney
D.   to wait for a warrior lover
E.   Coyote sang out in the voice of a lion and women stayed at the encampment to protect their sons and daughters
Question #3
When warriors become elders they are blessed with chalk in order to
A.   protect from the evil eye
B.   to ensure they are successful in arranging for a wife
C.   to mark the movement back to his parents village
D.   allow them to blend into the forested area as they hunt zebras for their ritual clothing
Question #4
In the wedding ceremony, what do the other women claim is wrong with the new bride's husband's cattle?
A.   they are greedy and will require much work to keep them fat
B.   they have rabies
C.   they refuse to chew the cud
D.   they are blind and lame
E.   he has lost them all with his bridewealth
Question #5
When a man dies,
A.   a woman can divide the cattle among dead man's children according to how she sees fit
B.   the cattle a woman has milking rights to are passed to her sons alone
C.   his cattle are divided equally to his sons
D.   his wife inherits his cattle

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