ANTC15H3 Lecture Notes - Gerontocracy
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Feminism, women and anthropology: a few key players. Early anthropologists became to study women first and their lives in various cultures. This is bc men was largely studied before. Culture was defined by what men didpartly bc most of the anthropologists were men. Feminist anthropology: they studied the nature of women"s lives in the 1960s-70s- women who were starting to study anthropology or went on fieldwork with their husbands, started studying women"s lives. They assumed that mens lives wld explain entire culture. Rather than studying men or just women, you need to understand gender. Gender is a relationshipyou cant have masculine without feminine. They are things that come into being thru relationship w/ another. You need to understand how they complement each other or are antagonist to each other. Anthropologists question why women are universally subordinate around the world ie unequal to men to varying degree.
