ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fetus, Transsexual, Genderqueer
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Gender, personhood, and the concept of cultural construction: thinking ahead: feeding desire writing assignment. Write about life among the azawagh arabs from the native"s point of view . Create a character and a brief narrative that illustrates what you"ve learned; cite evidence from the text for your characters motivations. Needs to be ethnographically true, related to the book. What is natural/common sense does not rely on this biological explanation. Biology" in azawagh arabs, what is natural? not biology, it is gods will - comes from their. Think of gender as being grounded in biology, and explains why people do what they do (question the naturalness of this specific context) Cultural constructionism: human behaviour and ideas are best explained as the result of culturally-shaped learning. Not the only explanation, but the best explanation would come from the idea of human behaviour and ideas therefore, the opposite would be
