1. Within The Gypsies and Guests of the Sheik, males and females carried out separate roles within the communities. In both books, families were patrilineal; therefore, the women would live with their husbands’ family after marriage. Through this tradition, males are expected to effectively carry on their family name and take care of their wives in their homes. Additionally, males are expected to provide for their families through work outside of the house. Within The Gypsies, males hunted animals for meals, drove the wagons to separate destinations, rode/cared for the horses, stole things, and initiated violent acts to cover up something while another man stole something. Similar to the men in this book, men in the Guests of the Sheik are
This book differs from most ethnographies in that it was not authored by an anthropologist. Fernea originally set out to accompany her husband as he completed research for his doctorate in social anthropology from the University Chicago. Henceforth, Fernea did not enter the field with any specific goals, hypotheses, or particular interests. In many ways, Guests of the Sheik reads as a personal narrative, describing Ferneas struggles integrating into a society that has vastly different expectations and guidelines for women. Fernea recalls the culture shock she first experienced as well as her eagerness to overcome it. Her goals were mainly of a human nature: she wanted to feel a sense of belonging, to have friends, and to establish a life in El Nahra. The first part of Guests of the Sheik largely mimics Fernea's own journey to feeling accepted as it introduces readers to the various groups of women who soon become Fernea's close friends and confidants, most importantly Laila, who will later introduce many aspects of Muslim culture to Fernea. Throughout the book, each chapter emphasizes a different aspect of life as Fernea discovers it, or details an important event. As such, readers experience Ramadan and Eid, two staples of the Muslim culture, Weddings and marriage arrangements, discussions of monogamy and polygamy, the Pilgrimage to Karbala, and many other customs
The case of R. v. Krymowski was around hate speech against the Roma people, also known as the “Gypsies”. A protest was staged by 25 neo-Nazis and other people in front of the motel where the Roma refugees were staying when they were allowed into Canada in 1997. These groups of individuals held up signs in order to gain support from the whole community to extradite/get rid of all the Gypsies who have immigrated. They eventually started getting assistance from a large group of people including public officials, police officers, members of the press and etc. Along with this were newspaper articles which were being published criticising the Roma people saying how they treated their wives and even their daughters unequally compared to the men in the family. They also believed that the Roma’s educated their children how to steal. About 3 weeks into the whole debate, the protesting began which last approximately over 2 hours. The Neo-Nazis held up some horrifying signs around the hotel where the Roma refugees were staying. Some signs stating “Honk if you hate Gypsies”, “Canada is not a Trash Can”, “You’re a cancer to Canada” and “G.S.T – Gypsies Suck Taxes”. However, there were no direct situations towards the Roma people during the whole period of the peaceful protest. Approximately 4 months after the protest had occurred; the police force entered numerous homes of individuals after extreme public lobbying by pressure groups. A number of people were charged with wilful promotion also known as hate crime. The Crown attempted to prove that the people that took place in the protest violated the Criminal Code by having hatred towards an identifiable group of people and tried to establish that the Neo-Nazis along w...
The women were in charge of the house and sometimes the field. The women also had to cook and skin the animals. The men were in charge of hunting and fishing for food. The hardest responsibility was making war and protecting the village.
"You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo."
The book “The interlopers”, by Saki, is a story about 2 men (Ulrich von Gradwitz and
submissive, powerless objects of their husbands. Equality and balance within their marriages were of no
When they become too old to do all of this, they become counselors of the village. Women are expected to raise children, make food, and take care of the children for a lifetime. There is no police force, government, or punishment in their culture. They do not need to. These responsibilities are very important to them and their way of living their life to the fullest.... ...
The film The Visitor, offers a significant insight of Tarek immigration experience. The film also offers a unique glimpse into the United States immigration detention system and the people it affects. Tarek was in the train station, when he let Walter use his metro card, and is himself entangled in the turnstile. The policemen’s accused Tarek of jumping the turnstile and gets arrested. At his arrest, is learned that he is an illegal immigrant and taken to a detention center in Queens. This film offers an insight on the injustice and discrimination of the immigration system in the United States.
To create this new relationship they borrowed a ceremony from the Wyandot, a form of the athataion, or a Feast of the Dead. This Feast of the Dead lasted fourteen days; each filled with dancing, games, gift exchanges, ritual adoption, and arranged marriages between members of the different bands in attendance.” This part of the text describes the delicate process of uniting the tribes who were past enemies, creating a valuable alliance crucial to survival. What this passage fails to tell us more about are these “arranged marriages.” Arranged marriages have been a method for thousands of years of as way of demonstrating unification among different peoples. This practice goes back as far as Alexander the Great. There is no better way of bringing two different peoples together than by making them family and connected through a shared offspring. When looking at the role gender plays in this relationship we see that a man and women from different backgrounds are coming together to form a new cultural identity of the future. Future generations will
The woman was raised to be a great spouse, to play maternal acts, to be able to care for her spouse, to be devoted, to be proper, and to assist him with money and watch over her kids and care for the home through selling, retailing, and planting. The female was made to be industrious from her dad 's home so it would be beneficial in her spouse 's home (Oluwagbemi-Jacob 227). Women have several different roles throughout the house and on the land. The females had several more jobs than the male does. Oluwagbemi-Jacob stated “The females make the fire, do the cooking, and serve the meals etc… The females would sweep the kitchen and the rooms of the family houses…
In my traditional Hmong household, women do everything that is “home” related. Meaning they cook, clean, take care of the children and make sure that guests feel welcomed. The men often find jobs to support
In general, women had no legal existence and no responsibility so her husband was left responsible for any debts and misbehavior (Gies and Gies 30). However, without ithout a husband, whether they were widowed or single, women found many restrictions placed on them and this made it difficult to do certain tasks. Unmarried women would work as a wage laborer, which included jobs such as haymaking, thatching, reaping, or washing (Moore). They also might work as a live-in servant, either at richer peasants home or the manor house itself, taking care of the lord’s children, washing clothing, or any other job assigned by their master (Moore). If an unmarried woman couldn’t find any work within the manor, they would be to travel to a town if possible. However they would find this difficult, given that most women were tied to their manor and the land. Widowed women, wives who have lost their husbands, had to give their lord a heriot and also give the church a mortuary (Moore). A heriot was a large part for the woman’s household that was given to the manor’s lord after one’s husband
In essence, the Harvest Gypsies was written as a documentary elucidating on the lives of American immigrants into California in search of employment that would help feed their families. The low-income families would work for minimal wages as there were plenty of laborers in the town because of increased immigration. Despite the existence of high wages that could be received from employment for instance harvesting crops, the neighboring towns would not match the extent of labor supply in such a time. Understandably, this period was marked by great depression, affecting poor and rich individuals across the country (Steinbeck and Charles 1998). Due to such, the native poor had to migrate to other states, for instance, California,
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih tells the story of a man searching for an identity he was unaware he had lost. Through his growing understanding of Mustafa Sa'eed's life, the central character eventually reconciles his own identity conflicts.
Gender is defined as the scopes of genetic, physical, mental and behaviour characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and feminity, meanwhile inequality is defined as in a situation where there is an unfair situation or treatment in which certain people have more privileges or better opportunities or chances than other people. Thus, from the definition stated gender inequality refers to unequal or unfair management, treatment, or perceptions of persons or individuals are based on their gender. In a parallel sense, gender inequality can be said as the world in which there was discrimination against anyone based on gender. In this introductory, the general understanding of gender inequalities will be discussed further into three significant factors that influence the allocation of housework between men and women. Household chores can be classified as cleaning, cooking and paying bills. Division of housework serves as an important element in the continuation of the function of a family and it requires contribution from both spouses (Tang, 2012). However, current society’s perception on housework is based on gender, so the three major factors that influence the division of household chores within the couples are education level, economic resources, and time availability (refer to Figure1 in Appendix 1).