ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Hermaphrodite, Performativity, Ovulation

• School: UTM
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT102H5
• Professor: Andrea Muehlebach

Document Summary

15 percent of animals can be determined as intersex creatures. A biological categorization based primarily on reproductive potential. It is the cultural expression of the gender definition. is therefore always performed according to culturally specific norms and possibilities. A person in albani, bosnia or serbia buta woman who has sworn to live her life as a man. It is a social situation where there are not enough men to live in a family. From a cultural perspective, there are many ways for gender to be expressed. Colonizing europeans discovered that native peoples had a cateogory of people called. 2spirit which allowed people to inhabit a gender not male or female but one that was in question. These 2 genders were apparently respected in the community because they were go betweens when marriage were arranged or when fights broke out. Question for midterm/exam what are the gender norms or gender. Ideoligies ? our lives and our relationship with one another.