ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Judith Butler, Margaret Mead, Gender Role
17 Oct 2018
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Judith butler argues that gender is a conscious or unconscious act, a show that we put through manipulating gender markers. Studied gender in papua new guinea in 1930s - among the arapesh (distributed roles), the mundugumor (both sexes were aggressive, fought over who should do what), and the tchambuli (male-dominant ?) *first to show that gender is culturally constructed. Other anthropologists that came after her show, via cross-cultural research that gender roles and ideals vary around the world. As such, gender is not something we are. Born knowing. yet, people still think about gender as if it is the result of biology. Fraternities and sororities - often employ rituals which reinforce a hegemonic masculinity/ hegemonic femininity. Hegemonic: ruling or dominant in a political or social context. What about among the wodaabe (p. 57) --gareewol (men dress up and parade around, in order to be evaluated by women for courtship and marriage)
