ANTH 1003 Lecture : Notes 3 15
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3/15/12: biological sex: male, female, ambiguous or intersex; may be physical and/or chromosomal, gender roles are culturally defined, gender definitions may change over life. Hindu mother goddess: believed to incorporate the goddess" powers of procreation, important role at celebrations of fertility; weddings, birth of child, have important t roles in the celebrations that are for the hindu mother. Goddess: they dress as women, and their roles are that they sing and dance, make everyone laugh, and act as the center of attention. Gender is performed: physical movement, body adornment, both get tattoos (use to be mainly for men0, make up (lip stick, activities, football, knitting. Masculine : three different types of gender roles on the same island, culture creates gender, social roles are determined by culture. Ireland: inis beag: culturally patterned sexual repression, absence of sexual foreplay, belief that sexual activity weakens men, absence of premarital sex, high percentage of celibate males.
