ortage of labor, chief may adopt newborn babies from the lowest rank descent group So as we could see, the prestige system embedded in economic, political, and kinship systems, where this systems, in their turn, are embedded in each other. The next culture we discuss is Andalusia researched by Stanley Brandes. More, specifically, we look at one of the parts of Andalusia, called San Blas, located in southeastern Spain with population of about eight thousand people. Their economy relies on production and processing of olives. In this society, the prestige system is embedded in sexual morality and religion. The people of San Blas leave in the state social organization, characterized by the high male hierarchy. In this culture the males sexual ideology is based on belief that females are the once with the power and that they are dangerous to males. Beliefs are based on folklore, and idioms. In this culture women are associated with serpent and goat, and men associated with sheep and God. As an example of prestige system embedded in religion there is a story about a pregnant virgin, mule and serpent. Virgin was sitting on the mule when serpent scared the mule, causing the latter to drop the virgin on the ground, nearly causing the death of unborn child. Before the virgin's fall, the serpent had legs, but after the fall, God took the legs away and forced it to crawl for the rest of it's life. Serpent represented female, and mule, mulo in Spanish, represented male; so if we interpret it in other words, we would see that in this folklore, female is shown as great danger to male. Essential part of the sexual ideology is the belief that bodily strength depends on bodily fluids, and so strength of men would depend of the amount of semen they have. In this context, female is seen as someone who is constantly reducing the supply of semen in a male's body until he dies. One example of this belief is story about a fifty seven year old man who married ...
