ANT102H5 Lecture 6: Lec 6 (9/28)
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Aging is biological and sociocultural, it is the meaning we assign to aging and the aging process. In canada/west: age categories such as toddlers, childhood, youth, teenagers etc. Adulthood: the age of criminal responsibility, the age of sexual consent, the right to marry, right to vote etc. Baruya of highland new guinea: (can watch movie about this) Only came into contact with the outside world in 1951, crop culture and produce salt. Have no social classes but have vast gender inequalities, men control everything of importance and women do the labor, women are dependent on men to give them tools for farming and for their jobs. Men give birth to boys through rituals and raise them: babies are born androgynous and without names, they are hidden from view, androgynous until.
