AAH 344 Lecture 2: 9.11
Document Summary
Venus of willendorf (little boobie statue) paleolithic period: over emphasized female attributes. People of the time couldn"t understand why some years they had lucious crops and other years famine. The female body became the focus of a divine force. respected, revered, respected. Motherhood has placed women on a high pedestal- but it doesnt give them any power. Patrilocality: male dominance, labor is exploited for the creation of commodities of exchange: females are the labor force, women have economic value. In mesopotamia it exists, but not in egypt. In egypt, class distinctions but not gender distinctions. No patrilineal order of dissent, they have matrilineal descent. The throne is inherited through the mother- the eldest daughter marries someone who becomes king, unless the daughter doesn"t marry. Children and wifes were seen as property & economic value & could be exchanged or sold (no evidence of female infanticide) Cylinder seals: carved from very hard materials (basalt) shoeing womens duties.
