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| 1. The Huli: Read all the pages of G. C. J. Lomas's website entitled "The Huli People of Papau New Guinea" at http://www.gabelomas.org.
Who are the Huli? Where do they live? What type of economy do they have? What are the important hereditary social structures? Is it possible to belong to more than one subclan at a time? What are the traditional responsibilities of a Huli bride? Of a Huli husband? Of the nonhereditary social positions, which one is reserved for women? How do the number of nonhereditary social positions open to women compare with the number open to men? 2. Visit http://marriage.rutgers.edu/index.html to learn about The National Marriage Project at Rutgers University. What is the mission of this project? What kinds of projects are the researchers of this project engaged in? Make sure to visit the project's "The State of Our Unions 2008" report, including the list of figures that reflect attitudes among high schoolers in the United States about marriage (http://marriage.rutgers.edu/Publications/SOOU/2008update.pdf). How do these findings reflect your views? What kinds of questions would an anthropologically informed perspective raise regarding the research agenda of this institute? |