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Sex, Love, and Marriage Discussion
- How will your culture reproduce?
- What sexual taboos or restrictions will there be? (gender, time, age, incest)
- What form of marriage will be most common?
- Monogamy, Polygyny, Polyandry, Group, Same-Sex, Cousin?
- Why?
- What form of marriage will be most preferred? Why?
- What rights and obligations will marriage establish? Sex? Labor? Property? Child rearing? Exchange?
- How do your answers fit in with your subsistence and exchange patterns?
- Will you practice arranged marriage or love marriage?
- Will you practice brideprice, dowry, or neither?
- How do your answers fit in with your subsistence and exchange patterns?
- Are there logical and realistic connections?
You might want to break up into the following committees:
Sex Committee:
How will your culture reproduce?
What sexual taboos or restrictions will there be?
Marriage Committee:
What form of marriage will be most common? Why?
What form of marriage will be most preferred? Why?
What rights and obligations will marriage establish? Sex? Labor? Property? Child rearing? Exchange? Love?
Technology and Trade Committee:
Determine where you could realistically travel in 1450.
Travel to those places and determine what you might be able to trade for in those areas.
Communications Committee:
Complete all greetings, proxemics, gender patterns, etc. Coach your trade committee on these things before they travel so they can practice them with neighboring cultures. Be prepared to greet visitors using your communication style
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