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Often appears with: women’s sexual norms · the position of women · marriage and betrothal · labor, wages, and the division of work · division of labor · betrothal in horses or mules
Usually: commentary or gloss (1) · forbidden love (1) · detachment (1)
It describes Shoshone practices concerning betrothal, divorce-like relinquishment, women’s chastity norms, sexual hospitality controlled by husbands, and the division of labor where men fight and women do most work and carry baggage.
two other wives, he claimed her, but on finding that she had a child by her new husband, Chaboneau, he relinquished his pretensions and said he did not want her. The chastity of the women does not appear to be held in much estimation. The husband will for a trifling present lend his wife for a night to a stranger, and the loan may be protracted by increasing the value of the present. Yet strange as it may seem, notw…