ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Margaret Mead, Arapesh Languages, American Anthropologist

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 1AA3
• Professor: Karen Mc Garry

Document Summary

First to show that gender is culturally constructed. Studied gender in papua new guinea in 1930s among the arapesh, the. And other anthropologists that came after her . showed, via cross-cultural gender is not something we are born knowing. yet, people still think about. Why might this kind of thinking be dangerous or problematic? research, that gender roles and ideals vary around the world. As such, gender as if it is the result of biology. Ask questions like: how do gendered rituals often (but not always) employ gender markers in ways that maintain dominant stereotypes of gender? hegemonic masculinity/hegemonic femininity. Fraternities and sororities often employ rituals, which reinforce a. What about among the wodaabe? (p. 57) gareewol. Anthropologists argue that we must use cultural relativism and change must come from within a society; tostan movement, starting in 1991. Occurs in societies with marked gender inequalities.