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Question 1

Dowry

Answer 1

A marriage exchange in which the wife’s kin group provides gifts to the husband’s kin group. Dowry is often part of hypergamous marriages (see: hypergamy).

Question 2

Honour killing

Answer 2

A woman is killed for her actual or perceived immoral behaviour, which is considered to have brought dishonour to her family.

Question 3

Hypergamy

Answer 3

The marriage of low-status women to high-status men.

Question 4

Patriarch

Answer 4

A political system ruled by men and in which women have inferior social and political status.

Question 5

State

Answer 5

a complex sociopolitical system involving a large stratified population; a state system that holds and defends a territory.

Question 6

changes to gender ideology?

Answer 6

The rise of the state as a complex form of socio-political organization saw changes in gender ideologies relegating women to a subordinate position not typically seen in pre-state societies.

Question 7

phenomena relating to state formation

Answer 7

several phenomena relating to state formation: patriarchy and the subordination of women, the ideology associating purity and family honour, and the relationship of hypergamy and dowry to the status of women

Question 8

what came with the rise of the state?

Answer 8

• With the rise of the state came patriarchy, a political system ruled by men and in which women have inferior social and political status.
  Within this system, the patriarch, or the senior male, emerges and has absolute authority over everyone in the household.

Question 9

related phenomena?

Answer 9

such as a concern for the purity (e.g., virginity) of females being linked to family honour, and the relationship of dowry (a marriage exchange in which the wife’s kin group provides gifts to the husband’s kin group) to hypergamous marriages based in hypergamy where low-status women marry, usually through arranged marriages, higher-status men, may also be evident.