ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Aboriginal Australians, Racialization, Hutu

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Max Friesen

Document Summary

How to find a marriage partner: opinions, selection by family, practical considerations (economic, health, etc. , self-consideration by potential partners: love marriage, not common in traditional societies - in the past, even in love marriage, there are economic considerations. Marriage and gender: most commonly husband has a male body and wife has a female body, today: gay marriage, queer anthropology. Nuer (south sudan: a woman who can"t have children can be the husband of a fertile women who is secretly impregnated by a man. Economics: the base of culture: human survival requires first of all, ways to provision people with food, clothing, etc. and, ways to change the environment so it will support human life, to accomplish this, humans work in groups. Economics: regular and anthropological: anthropologists are less interested in general rules, and more in how specific policies function in the field, , and they pursue the ethnographic method, the results are less generalizable but more true to life.