onvinced wife to return back home and prevented possible fatality. In another instance, two women stopped the fight by holding one of the fighters from fighting. This examples show that both, men and women, can resolve disagreements and that both are valued equally. In !Kung San men admit that they do not have sexual power, nor they have the reproductive ability. That is why there is a balance in value of men and women, where men are seen as nurturers and care takers, and women are seen as sex objects and reproducing agents. The prestige system is supported by ideology. In the discussed examples, the four cultures belong to four different types of social organization and have different ideologies and, therefore, different prestige systems. But all of the cultures share the same fact that prestige system does not exist by itself. Prestige system in each culture is embedded in many subsystems such as political, economic, kinship, religion and some other, and we saw it in Andalusia, !Kung San, Polynesia, and Mundurucu. Moreover, when we defined the prestige system, we mentioned that there are sources of prestige. To name some of them: wealth, power, social connections. Wealth is relates to economic factor, power relates to politics, and social connections is the kinship. So the prestige system, besides been embedded into the subsystems, is also supported by them.Effects of Gender in Prestige SystemsBIBLIOGRAPHY-Ortner, Sherry B. (1996). Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture. Boston: Beacon Press-“The prestige systems in Polynesia is the system of hereditary ranking which is embedded in political system, kinship system, and economic system”-“Every village, that is the part of the chiefdom, has a goal to get on the top of the symbolic pyramid, with main chief and fono, the governing council, on the top”-“The economic system in the Polynesia is based on the redistribution exchange mode.”-Roosev...
