ANTHR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Endogamy, Incest, Exogamy
2 Nov 2015
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Anthr101- lecture 22-gender roles in ancient populations, kinship & marriage. They were thrown in the fire during hunting celebrations. Scholars deduced this from finding many fragments of figurines at the site. Finger print on one figurine found to belong to a female child. May indicate passing on of knowledge from parent to child. May indicate that figurines are made by females. Rare evidence of preserved baskets, nets, and other decomposable tools. Organic tools actually outnumbered stone tools with a ratio of 20:1. Further evidence for the social construction of gender . Third genders: describes a social category of individuals who identity with and are recognized by a gender role that was neither man or woman. Berdache: biological males who take on both female and male identities. They tend to be important for ceremonies like weddings, childbirth, celebrations, etc. Xanith: biological males who take on gender identity that is neither male or female, wear pastel, have medium length hair.
