Analysis Of The Book Women And Alcohol A Highland Maya...

The book â€Å"Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town† is a thorough analysis of Chiristine Eber in describing the culture, gender issues, and the drinking alcohol tradition of the Pedranos people living in a highland Chipas community. She mainly aims her discussion toward women in their relationship with men and their daily tasks including nurturing children and working. Eber also represents an in-depth analysis in the drinking tradition of the Pedranos and the religious fiesta. Eber presents her detailed study of the Infrastructure class of the Universal Pattern - a category of production and reproduction- by describing how the Pedranos organize their families and what they do for a living. There is a strict division of labor in the family. While men spend most of their time planting and harvesting corn, women utilize the corn to make food for the whole family (67). Corn makes up about more than sixty percent of the family meals. Women often stay at home to gather corns and beans, nurture children, prepare meals, and learn skills such as embroidery or weaving. Those skills are passed and maintained from generations to generations. Girls develop their weaving skills from the elderly. Sometime during the year, men and women could switch roles to each other. In other words, men stay at home to take care of the children and the family members, feed the animals, grin corn, and prepare the food whereas their wives go to the fields to collect beans and corns. Howe ver, some menShow MoreRelatedNatural Dyes11205 Words   |  45 PagesPolychrome or multicolored fabrics seem to have been developed in the 3rd or 2nd millennium BCE.[2] Textiles with a red-brown warp and an ochre-yellow weft were discovered in Egyptian pyramids of the Sixth Dynasty (2345-2180 BCE).[3] The chemical analysis that would definitively identify the dyes used in ancient textiles has rarely been conducted, and even when a dye such as indigo blue is detected it is impossible to determine which of several indigo-bearing plants was used.[4] Nevertheless, based