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Ep 297: Alice Evans Studies the Great Gender Divergence

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Importance of Female Seclusion and Violence

An ancestral pastoralism in northwest india is associated with higher rates of female seclusion and greater idealization of male honor and violence. In medieval rajasthan when one dominant group would take over another they would often raid and take their women to use them as concubines or sex slaves. Still today if you look at pew data their religion people are much more religious in north india than the sounds like 88 percent in north 35 percent in the south there's also far greater opposition to interreligious marriage in the north.

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