The Udam seem to be more strict in their division of labour, which fits the harsh environment from which they originate: you’ll never fight an Udam tribeswoman in the game. (Though the Far Cry games have always had a male protagonist so far.)
Likewise, Takkar, the player character, would have lost nothing if he had been a she instead. Tensay the shaman could equally well have been female, and Sayla might just as well have been a man. In the game, there is no marked difference in the kinds of jobs that Wenja men and women perform. For more, see Frank Marlowe’s article, ‘Hunting and gathering: the human sexual division of foraging labor’, published in Cross-Cultural Research 41 (2007), pp. In environments that possess greater amounts of biomass (such as the fictional valley of Oros), men often work alongside women to forage for food, and a large part of the diet consists of plant matter. One of the interesting things about Far Cry Primal is that, at least in the case of the Izila and the Wenja, the developers seem to purposefully try to subvert the old stereotype of “man the hunter” and “woman the gatherer”.Īs a general rule, in relatively poor environments (with lower temperatures and/or at higher latitudes), men are more likely to contribute relatively more to the diet because they are often – but not not always! – responsible for hunting animals, and animal meat is an important part of the diet.
Today, I will finish the main plot of the game by slaying the leaders of the two rival tribes: Ull of the cannibalistic Udam and Batari of the fire-worshipping Izila. How far we’ve come since Tutorial Land! Before the Easter break, I had wandered through Oros, completing most of the specialist missions, including those of comic relief character Urki.
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