ANT 10CD Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Firelighting, Patrilineality, Metalworking
5 Apr 2016
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Male stays with family of orientation after marriage. The pattern we are used to in the united states. In most societies, relationships to ancestors and kin are the key relationships in social structure. Jural rights concerning transfer of property and social position. Categories are socially constructed (symbolic) but have material consequences (stratiication and inequality) Based on markes characteristics (gender, class, race/ethnicity) Sex and gender sex biological trait, physicality, sexual dimorphism (marked diference in primates in size between male and female) gender traits a culture assigns to and inculcates in males and females, vary with adaptive strategy. Making rope recurrent gender patterns: body mutilation, gathering small land animals, making leather products. Recurrent gender patterns (male or female: making ire, preparing skins, planting crops, harvesting, milking, carrying burdens, caring for small animals, loom weaving, making pottery, making baskets, tending crops, making mats, preserving meat and ish, gathering small aquatic animals.
