ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Margaret Mead, Cultural Anthropology, Androcentrism

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

Document Summary

Rest of assignments for remainder of course will be posted next week! 5 short assignments are posted, we only have to do 4 out of 5 ! All responses have to be in full paragraph! Dropbox on avenue where you upload pdf le or word doc ! You should be relating ideas and content back to the textbook and content posted so far! Goal of course is to work on writing skills and improve writing ! Sex and gender are de ned very differently in academia and anthropology ! In other words, how you act, how you perform your gender (clothes, hair styles etc) ! Gender is cultural, sex is biological ! One of the rst female anthropologist ! What was happening in the 1920s in america was a lot of people speculating without real evidence that gender was biological (natural instincts how to ask) ! Gender was something you were born with, not a learned behaviour!