Gender Roles and Marriage among the !Kung Although we have not yet discovered complete equality between the sexes in any pre-existing or currently existing society, the !Kung people are among the closest to achieving such equality. The !Kung are an egalitarian society, meaning that everyone has access to valuable resources. While the amount of access varies, it is significant that everyone is included, at least on some level, when it comes to meeting life's essential needs. Much of !Kung life is about caring for one another, and there is a strong effort made to keep everyone on relatively the same level of status. A great example of this exists in hunting traditions. When a man returns to the village after killing a large animal, there is a certain role-playing game he is supposed to participate in. When people approach him to tell them what happened, he pretends that nothing noteworthy has happened. This means to the rest of the !Kung that the hunt was a success and they continue to ask for further details. The successful hunter continues to tell his story, however, if he appears to be too proud, people will not hesitate to make jokes to humiliate him. Credit for the hunt invariably goes to the one who made the arrow (who, although rare, can be either a woman or a man) and it is his duty to divide the meat equally among all the villagers. In one way or another, directly or indirectly, everyone will be given a part of the animal.