ANTH 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 42: Victorian Era, Biological Determinism, Medicalization
17 May 2017
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Levirate: if a woman"s husband dies, she marries his brother. Soroate: if a mans wife dies, he marries her sister. Societies vary in their beliefs concerning divorce and remarriage: may be freely practiced, or subject to social and religious restrictions. In extremely patriarchal societies, only men may have the right to divorce. Bigamy: one has two spouses o illegal in the. Us crime: marrying someone before your divorce is final. Biological determinism: when explorers saw these strange sexual practices, they must be from a deeply rooted biological drive (the primitives could not help it: negative way of approach, victorian era, led to medicalization. Medicalization: deviant sexual practices were given a medical diagnosis. 1930-1950"s very socially conservative time (family centered, kinship structures, sexuality in families) Levi strauss: women were objects exchanged amongst men (in his kinship model) - 1960"s. Civil rights movement in the us racial equality: stonewall riots in nyc sexual equality.
