Can you identify a pattern in the work that baiga men and women do? what were the differences in the types of work they were expected to perform?
Answers
Answer::PLEASE MARK AS BRAINLIEST
Explanation:1.Verrier Elwin was a British anthropologist and tribal activist.He lived among the Baigas and Khonds of central India for many years in the 1930s and 1940s and gave the picture of their lifestyle and division of tasks.
2..i The Baiga tribes practis shifting cultivation in forest area and live a nomadic life.They are also woodsman and good hunters.
ii Men and women share the full responsibility for household chores like cooking, fishing, and woodcutting except hunting.
iii They derive income from bamboo products,sale of honey, and by hiring themselves out as labourers.
3.The women and men shares equal responsibility of work.Like in all the tribes, men do difficult and dangerous tasks like hunting and cutting trees etc, whereas women are generally restricted to agriculture activities and household chores.
4.The difference in the type of their work is explained in answer no. 2.
5.i Before the arrival of the British, tribal chiefs were important people. They enjoyed certain economic and administrative power and form local rules of land and forest management. The functions and powers of the tribal chiefs changed considerably under the rule of Britishers.
ii They lost much of their administrative power ,economic power and authority they had earlier enjoyed amongst their people and were forced to follow laws made by British