Why There Are So Few Women Warriors TABLE 1
Relation of Marital Residency to Type of Warfare Across Cultures
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SOME INTERNAL WAR (INCLUDING FEUDING)





| PATRILOCAL-
VIRILOCAL
RESIDENCY
| BILOCAL-
NEOLOCAL
RESIDENCY
| MATRILOCAL-
UXORILOCAL
RESIDENCY
EXOGAMY | Amba (hh) Murngin° (bb)|Kurtatchi° (hh)|Mataco° (bb)
| Aranda° (dc) Nama° (cc)||
| Chagga° (ii) Nootka° (bb)||
| Fang° (je) Nuer° (de)||
| Gisu (hh) Squamish (bb)||
| Kapauku° (ge) Tallensi° (ge)||
| Klallam (bb) Tiv° (hh)||
| Luo° (gi) Tlingit° (di)||
| Mapuche° (de) Yurok° (bb)||
| Maria Gond (jf) ||




AGAMY | Aleut° (bb) Micmac° (gb)|Abipon° (hh)|
| Bellacoola° (de) Monachi (hh)|Andamans° (bb)|
| Coeur D'Alene° (bb) Nambicuara° (je)|Iban° (gi)|
| Goajiro° (dc) Papago° (hh)|Jivaro° (hh)|
| Ila° (dc) Rwala° (da)||
| Maidu (bb) Tehuelche° (hh)||
| Marquesans° (je) Tiwi° (hh)||
| Masai° (ja) Tuareg° (ii)||




ENDOGAMY | Maori* (di) Sema (hh)|Aweikoma° (bb)|Lesu (gi)
| Mende° (hh) Shilluk° (de)|Comanche* (bb)|Ramocamecra° (hh)
| Mutair° (hh) Trobrianders° (cc)|Copper Eskimo (hh)|Trukese° (ja)
| Orokaiva*(hh) Yokuts° (bb)|Majuro* (hh)|Yao° (ge)
| Pukapukans° (cc) ||

LOW FREQUENCY OF WAR





| PATRILOCAL-
VIRILOCAL
RESIDENCY
| BILOCAL-
NEOLOCAL
RESIDENCY
| MATRILOCAL-
UXORILOCAL
RESIDENCY
EXOGAMY | Dorobo (b) Tanala (f)|Kung (b)|Vedda (g)
| Lapps (c) Toda (c)||
| Lepcha (c) Yahgan (b)||
| Pekangekum (b) Yurak (f)||
| Semang (b) ||




AGAMY | Angmagsalik (b) |Barama Carib (g)|
| Montagnais (b) |East Pomo (b)|
| Sanpoil (b) |Kidutokudo (b)|
| Tikopia (h) |Mbuti (b)|
| |Naskapi (f)|
| |Nunamiut (b)|
| |Shivwits (b)|
| |Washo (b)|




ENDOGAMY | Ainu (b) |Hukudika (b)|Beaver (b)
| Cayapa (c) |Tarahumara (f)|Hano (f)
| |Ifaluk (g)|Khasi (c)
| ||Siriono (b)

EXTERNAL WAR ONLY





| PATRILOCAL-
VIRILOCAL
RESIDENCY
| BILOCAL-
NEOLOCAL
RESIDENCY
| MATRILOCAL-
UXORILOCAL
RESIDENCY
EXOGAMY |Crow* (bb) ||Choroti° (jb)
| Gros Ventre* (ba) ||Yukaghir (hh)




AGAMY | Kutenai (bb) |Fox* (hh)|Chiricahua° (jb)
| Nandi (hh) |Yavapai (bb)|Mandan° (ge)
| Plains Cree (hh) ||Miskito° (ge)
| Trumai° (hh) ||Mundurucu° (hh)
| Tubatulabal° (bb) ||Navaho* (ge)




ENDOGAMY | Havasupai° (je) |Santa Ana (hh)|Bororo° (bb)
| ||Callinago° (ce)
| ||Delaware* (ce)
| ||Kaska° (je)
| ||Pawnee° (ja)
| ||Tapirape° (je)
| ||Zuni° (ca)

* Some female warriors

° No female warriors

NOTE: First letter is warfare frequency reference and second is type of warfare. See footnote 1 for letter references. (j) refers to data from Human Relations Area File. Alternative names: Ramcocamecra=Timira; Ifaluk=Woleai; Nama=Hottentot; Hano=Hopi; Majuro=Marshallese; Tuareg=Antessar; Mapuche=Araucanians; Mutair=Bedouins; Lesu=New Ireland; Pekangekum=Ojibwa; Yurak=Samoyed; Yurok=Klamaths.

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