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Cause and Effect in Apachean Agriculture, Division of Labor, Residence Patterns, and Girls' Puberty Rites 1
Author(s) -
OPLER MORRIS E.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1972.74.5.02a00070
Subject(s) - residence , agriculture , division of labour , division (mathematics) , geography , demographic economics , sociology , demography , political science , economics , archaeology , law , mathematics , arithmetic
It has been asserted that matrilocal residence among Apacheans is a recent development, resulting from the acquisition of agriculture and a female agricultural division of labor due to Pueblo influence. Yet matrilocal residence is weakly developed among the Pueblos, Pueblo men carry on most of the agriculture, Apacheans who do little or no farming are matrilocal, and Apachean men are very active in cultivation. An alternative explanation for Apachean matrilocal residence is offered.