ANTH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sexual Intercourse, Zande People, Sexual Orientation
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Sexual orientation: a person"s habitual sexual attractions and activities. Homosexuality: sexual preference for members of the same sex. Heterosexuality: sexual preference for members of the opposite sex. Bisexuality: sexual preference for members of both sexes. Asexuality: indifference toward, or lack of attraction to, either sex. Anthropologists evelyn blackwood and saskia wieringa have studied the cultural shaping of female desires, they found that female bodies are designed different cultural meanings in different historical and ethnographic settings. Rite of passage: a ritual that serves to mark movement and transformation of an individual from one social position to another. Mombasa is because social rank takes precedence over all other measures of status. Sparsely populated areas lack taboos on male-female contact. But extreme male-female avoidance in densely populated areas where there is strong pressure on resources. Men have limited supply and sex depletes it. Heterosexual intercourse = reproduction & slow death. Homosexual relations between men and boys give boys life force.