HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Monogamy, Sinocentrism
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Frontiers are borders/barriers, civilization vs uncivilized land, borderlands, contested. Gender frontiers control and cultural contact, no one group is ruling the area. Gender refers to ideals and norms that go with male and female. Gender frontiers are cultural encounters, confrontation of different gender systems and ideologies pose challenges to natural ideals of gender. What they are seeing vs what the natives believe. Pueblo had sexual rituals and named land things sexual things. Acoma: deity of water and rain creation story. Modesty, shame and virginity don"t matter to native americans. Nakedness gets confused with promiscuousness with europeans. Europeans want to verify that a woman is not pregnant with someone else"s child. Europeans saw savagery in the native people"s sexual activity. They didn"t see the meaning in it. Michele starts off by saying the carib woman is naked. She is captured, columbus gave him to her.
