From: Lawrence DeBivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Tue 18 Mar 2003 - 00:07:13 GMT
Great story Keith -- may I use it on another list? If so, with or without
your name?
Cheers,
Lawry
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> Of Grant Callaghan
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> Subject: Re: Dennett article on post-modernism
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>
> Keith Henson
>
> PS. one of the best stories I know about in relation to battered wives
> happened between this Apache (Native American) I knew and his
> Russian wife.
> (This was at least 40 years ago.) After they had been married a
> while, he
> beat her up just because it was traditional. She waited till he went to
> sleep and then banged him on the head with a cast iron frying pan and
> proceeded to bash him with the edge of the pan a good deal worse
> than he had
> beaten her. Next morning when he woke up--very painfully--she handed him
> the pan and told him it was his turn, but remember he had to
> sleep. Far as
> I know, he never hit her again. :-)
>
>
> Grant
>
> Amazing! My grandmother told me that same story, only it was about
> different people. I was going to use it in the book of family
> history I'm
> writing. She grew up in Indian territory along the Texas-Oklahoma border.
>
> The capture of men is just as common, historically, as the
> capture of women.
> The primary difference is that while the women were taken to
> become wives,
> the men were taken to become slaves or drafted into the army of their
> captors. In either case it was adapt or die. I suspect it is
> also at root
> of the hated mother-in-law syndrome because in most societies the
> mom-in-law
> was in charge of teaching the new bride the rules and customs of the new
> tribe and discipline was often very strict.
>
>
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