Authority and Hierarchy on Benin, Northwest Coast and Tokugawa Japan Societies

There are many kinds of demonstrating power within a cultural sphere. Throughout cultures of the world, power has always been the main feature that defines social order. In societies like Benin and Japan, power is held by these with the power of killing, whereas in northwest coast culture the power to kill was just a representative symbol of the powerful, which were actually the wealthiest. Furthermore, when we consider the close relation between politics and …

…aristocratic ladies. The highly stylized hair, luxurious dressing and representative fan show to us how this kind of women, who belonged only to one man, were not ordinary at all, but rather trained in arts and specific elegant skills. All in all, the woman role in all three cultural spheres was that of an object of contemplation, and we can certainly secure there is one feature shared by the three: they all were patriarchal societies.