ANT335H5 Lecture 2: Sept 16.docx
Document Summary
Interested in issues of gender: students of franz boas, both women, mead, coming of age book, interested in how to think about adolescence, a lot of public discussions about women today, whether in another culture adolescence always not turbulent for women, in the late 80s, controversy about whether her field work was accurate, surpassing our expectations of what women anthropologists can do, portraying her as someone who"s always been with her family, never alone , zora, wrote both fiction and non fiction, their eyes were watching god, african america folklore, she was popular but her work had to be rediscovered, interested in gender and the intersection of gender and racial discrimination, issues of gender were disregarded in histories, men were naturally the basic subject of culture, in a lot of societies men didn"t have always have access to talking with the women.
