ANT335H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Primatology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
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Looking at work being done outside her own field as a cultural anthropologist. Looking at language use to see what types of gender stereotypes are beneath it. The process of reproduction in humans and reproductive systems. Structured by cultural narratives shaping the way how textbooks are describing how reproductive system work. These scientific descriptions re-enforce narratives of women being less than men. Sheds vs produces men as productive and men as culturally not productive. Producing many sperm vs shed one single egg. Social gender is being applied to biological sex. The egg isn"t moving through the fallopian tube but is swept (passive language), the sperm having powerful tails and moving (active language) Challenging stories that get popularized as bad primatology. Natural history stage; long term studies (jane goodall) observation and descriptive rather than linking it to human revolution. Structural functionalism; perspective of british social anthropologist, looks at social institutions and the functions they serve.
