ANTH 2501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Wage Labour, Double Burden, Social Inequality
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Book is an example of what rosaldo was talking about. Lughod critiques certain views in anth/gender studies of the time. Male dominance and patriarchy exists across time and in spaces (rosaldo) Lughod takes up challenge of patriarchy through a cross-cultural context. Looks at in a sociohistorical way rather than orientalist: muslim societies. Stakes are higher for her marks another opening: non-white, non-western, native anthropologists who become more prominent in the field, daughter of academics (dad is palestinian, mom is american- Questions patriarchy in the bedouin community from a different perspective: it isn"t enough to analyze the society in terms of patriarchy. Enlarge our conceptual tools and issues we examine to understand their lives. Patriarchy social organization marked by supremacy of male and father in clan or family. Marked by dependence of women and children on the patriarch. Marked my descent through the male line (naming)