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It really bothered me that Mintz and Kellogg spent so much time looking at New England families and did not seem to devote anytime to those in other colonies. The New England colonies covered just a small portion of all the colonies and I feel that more should be dedicated to the other groups. -- Kellye Sorber | It really bothered me that Mintz and Kellogg spent so much time looking at New England families and did not seem to devote anytime to those in other colonies. The New England colonies covered just a small portion of all the colonies and I feel that more should be dedicated to the other groups. -- Kellye Sorber | ||
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| + | I agree with Ashley that the material from Mintz and Kellogg, especially in Chapter 2, was very generalized. The three ethnic groups that they identify do not seem very cohesive in their family structure. There are several variations in the groups based on location, environment, and economic standing, among other factors. For instance, the discussion of the Native Americans seemed to briefly gloss over the 7 designated geographical areas and then focused on a few seemingly random groups, such as the Iroquois, which were not representative of all Native American families. In fact, did anyone else feel that their example of the Iroquois did not support their argument? They contend that the Iroquois were "largely able to maintain their culture, values, and rituals," and yet to reach this point of supposed stability they had to give up their practice of matrilineal descent and men had to learn the occupation of farming, resulting in a re-working of the traditional power structure and prescribed gender roles. It seems that obtaining a "stable" nuclear family resulted in the dissolution of the Iroquoian kinship network upon which their society had been based. --Sarah Gardner | ||
