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Although the women of the BaMbuti culture contribute a substantial amount to the hunting process by foraging for mushrooms and nuts and by driving the animals into the net, the men actually kill the animal and distribute it among the tribe. Turnbull states that "survival can be achieved only by the closest co-operation and by an elaborate system of reciprocal obligations which insures that everyone has some share in the day's catch" (107)...
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According to Friedl this distribution obligates others to the hunter and "these obligations constitute a form of power or control over others, both men and women" (264). Friedl informs us that hunter-gatherer societies fit into four basic types, one of which is where "men and women work together in communal hunts and as teams gathering edible plants", as did the members of the BaMbuti (265)...
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