usakaibo livesaway from the village and has no wife. He has son, which suggests that he reproduced asexually, like a bird. By the end of Myth 6 he has wife and a daughter. However, Karusakaibo created wives by turning fish into them, which puts female into the lower level in the religious prospect. When we talk about the embeddence of prestige system in to the economic system, we would have to mention that men bring home the prestige food - pigs. Since this is a village type of social organization, the production mode is foraging and horticulture. Men do all of the hunting and fishing, and women produce manoic flour in the farinha shed. Although manoic flour is reach with nutritions, it is not valued in the Mundurucu, and only prestige food, provided by men, is important. So the role of hunter supports the male superiority. When we talk about the kinship, we understand that superiority of men is supported by patrilineal descent rule, where only fathers line is important. A family consist of consanguineally related women, women having the same ancestor, and young boys. Grown up boys live in the Men's house. Men, most of their time, live in flute chamber and men's house, where women live in houses and prepare food in farinha shed. Only when it comes to biological reproduction, men go in the houses. Men do their rituals in the flute chamber, where it is secret and no woman can enter. The farinha shed and men's house are important because of the economic activity conducted in them. The houses don't have much of the importance because women's ability to give birth is not considered to be unique. In men's rituals they show that men can reproduce without women, equalizing the capacities of men and women, so that women would not be important. So as we see, economic, kinship, and religion systems are interrelated with the prestige system imbedded in each one of them. The fourth culture we consider differs from the previous three. The !Kung San s...
