Previously we have reported that although the anthropometric status of women themselves is not associated with the number of cowives or their marital rank, the growth of children is strongly associated with the number of cowives present and the order of the mother's marriage to the husband. These analyses controlled for variation between seasons and a significant independent effect of household, but did not directly test for associations between aggregate indicators of household nutrition and wealth.
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As is shown, the status of women among the Datoga is determined by the respective status of their menfolk. A woman can actively raise her own status by contributing to the increased wealth and prestige of her husband, either by adding to his stock of wives, children, cattle, or cowrie shells. However, she seems to have little status on her own. Presumably if she were not married - not somehow directly attached to a man - she would have status insofar only as she would be an object of desire to a man. In other words, the more desirable she appears, the more likely would she be to acquire a husband, and the higher the status of that husband.
Thus, there are great differences in the relative egalitarianism of hunter/gatherer and pastoralist societies. These differences do not depend ultimately on the different ways of earning a living, nor on the different social organizations of the two kinds of people. Instead, what is essential to any people's definition of wealth, prestige, and success, is the prime determining factor in the relative egalitarianism, or hierarchical qualities found among that people. If the acquisition of wealth is limited to certain kinds of occupations, or to the acquisition of certain objects, then only those who can perform...
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