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due date** || **Facilitator** || __**KINSHIP, MASCULINITY/FEMININITY**__ > >
 * **Chapter** || **book page #s** || **Topic** || **Discussion
 * 19 ||  || Kinship masculinity/femininity ||   || Toni Trout ||
 * · There is gender mobility
 * Females can assume male roles and males are free to assume female roles · Different areas have different feelings on this
 * Some places are sexist where males are dominant but other places are matrilineal (woman dominant) vs. patrilineal ·
 * Igbo is generally patrilineal and allows polygamy
 * Marriage is arranged by the woman and woman’s family ·
 * Even non-matrilineal societies are not as oppressive to women as they are commonly perceived ·
 * Women are less likely to be killed according to statistics because of the high regard they are held in
 * · Ohaffia group in the Igbo tribe is matrilineal · Mother’s family remains important throughout their life ·
 * Umunna are children of one father or localized patrilineage ·
 * Compound families · Most families are the mother, and the siblings ·
 * All blood-related family is bound in the ethics of umunne
 * Umunne is the ritualized spirit of a common mother. //Ndi-Umune,// or //ikwunne,// is the term used to describe the mother's agnates.

media type="youtube" key="5-8W0eNYMRw" height="344" width="425" Igbo women use old skills to create useful objects.

media type="youtube" key="0wIVkw5EeiQ" height="344" width="425" Igbo Women meet to perform a traditional dance

__LINKS__

http://www.colorq.org/Articles/article.aspx?d=2002&x=africanwomen

http://www.everyculture.com/Africa-Middle-East/Igbo-Kinship.html

http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/african_history/110213

__PICTURES__ An Igbo Warrior (typically male, like shown) prepare for battle

A more modern-looking Ibo soldier is poised for victory