ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sherwood Washburn, Margaret Mead, Arapesh Languages
16 Sep 2016
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Gender identity: how people internalize and enact attitudes and expectations that are associated with their gender category. How you act/perform your gender through behaviour, clothes, etc. In the 20s, many people were speculating that gender was biological. Mead was suspicious b/c there was no evidence of this. Studied gender in papua new guinea in 1930s - among the arapesh, the. If there was a universal sameness then it could be said that gender was biological. Arapesh: both men and women were very violent, neither had much of an interest in caregiving or domestic chores, they often fought with each other, both participated in hunting. Mundugamor: traditional american gender roles/identities (men were the breadwinners --> warfare, politics, trade, while the women stayed home) Tchambuli: women were more aggressive/dominate, they hunted, made major group decisions, while men were more submissive, took care of children, and sat around fires to gossip. First to show that gender in culturally constructed.
