Patripolar:
Matripolar:
Field Specializations:
Early Big-Game Hunters
Gatherers
Midperiod Herdsmen
Gardeners
Later Ranchers
Farmers
Species domestication:
Horse, Wheat, Barley
Ox?, Legumes?
Dietary Orientation:
Meat, Blood, Dairy
Vegetarian, Spices
Mobility:
Nomadic, Marginal Land Stationary,
Best land
Group Discipline to Survive: Yes, Militaristic
No, Laissez faire
Society Types:
Dominator cultures
Cooperator
cultures
Early Arts Development: Barbarian
Invaders
High Arts-Cultures
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Table 2. Contrasting Behaviors, Attitudes, and Social Institutitons:
15 variable correlations within Murdoch’s ethnic database of 1170 cultures (DeMeo, 1998)
Patripolar
Matripolar
Infants &
Less indulgence
More indulgence
Children:
Less physical affection
More physical affection
Infants truamatized
Infants not traumatized
Painful initiations
Absence of pain in initiations
Dominated by family
Children’s democracies
Sex-segregated houses
Mixed sex children’s houses
Sexuality:
Restrictive, anxious view
Permissive, pleasurable attitude
Genital mutilations
Absence of genital mutilations
Female virginity taboo
No female virginity taboo
Vaginal intercourse taboo No
vaginal intercourse taboos
Adolescent sex censured
Adolescent sex freely permitted
Homosexual-Incest taboos Absence
of Homo-Incest tendency
Concubinage / prostitution
Absence of concubinage/prostitution
Women:
Limits on freedom
More
freedom
Inferior status
Equal status
Vaginal bleeding taboos
No vaginal blood taboos
Cannot choose own mate
Can choose own mate
Cannot divorce at will
Can divorce at will
Males control fertility
Females control fertility
Reproduction denigrated
Reproduction celebrated
Table 3: Contrasting Social and Religious Institutitons:
15 variable correlations within Murdoch’s ethnic database of 1170 cultures (DeMeo, 1998)
Patripolar:
Matripolar:
Culture, Family
Patrilineal descent
Matrilineal descent
Social Structure:
Patrilocal marital home
Matrilocal
marital household
Compulsive monogamy
Non-compulsive monogamy
Often polygamous
Rarely polygamous
Authoritarian
Democratic
Heirarchal
Elegantarian
Political/Econ. centralism
Work-democratic
Military specialists/caste
No full time military
Violent, sadistic
Non-violent, sadism absent .
Ancient
Male/Father oriented
Female/Mother
oriented
Religion:
Asceticism, avoidance
Pleasure welcomed
of pleasure, pain-seeking
and institutionalized
Inhibition, fear of nature
Spontaneity, nature worshiped
Male shamans, healers
Male or Female shamans/healers
Strict behavioral codes
Absence of strict codes