<p>Zinacantan, a highland Indian community in Mexico where I did field work, perfectly exemplifies this hypothetical description. Men's agricultural work is done in the lowlands, away from the community, and boys, depending on whether or not they are in school, do not work with their fathers until they are nine to eleven. They perform a certain amount of »helping« work when they are young—fetching things, and so forth—but this is not seen as »real« work for them.

<p>This last claim is not stated explicitly but seems to be derivable from the data which they present on comparison within sexes for each type of society.</p>

<p>Herbert Barry III, Margaret K. Bacon, and Irvin L. Child, »A Cross-Cultural Survey of Some Sex Differences in Socialization,« Journal of Abnormal Psychology 55 (1957): 327-332.</p>

<p>Whiting and Whiting, »Egoism and Altruism« p. 32.</p>

<p>Ibid., p. 176.</p>

<p>Roy D'Andrade, »Sex Differences and Cultural Institutions,« in E. Maccoby, ed., The Development of Sex Differences (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1966)</p>

<p>George P. Murdock, »Comparative Data on the Division of Labor by Sex,« Social Forces 15 (1937) : 551-553.</p>

<p>For the record: children's behavior is 96 percent »egoistic« in a New England village, the only Western »society« in their sample.</p>

<p>They are measuring slightly different things. Barry, Child, and Bacon, in both this study and one mentioned later, are talking about pressure toward certain kinds of behavior in children, while the Whitings are talking about observed behavior.</p>

<p>Beatrice B. and John W. M. Whiting, »Task Assignment and Personality: A Consideration of the Effect of Herding on Boys,« paper presented at the Social Science Conference, University of East Africa, Dar-es-Salaam, 1968; »Egoism and Altruism,« Children of Six Cultures, Part 1: Egoism vs. Altruism (forthcoming).</p>