HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Timucua Language, Indigenous Peoples Of The Eastern Woodlands, Giovanni Da Verrazzano
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Old definition: talking about settlement v. wilderness. Frontier -- zone of contested control, multiple people meet, unsettled relationships of powers. Gender -- expectation of behavior based on sex. Gender frontier -- cultural encounters, challenge natural categories, role in colonization. Pueblo -- sang about sex, rituals about sexual relations. Acoma: pishuni(deity of water) entered nautsiti"s body as rain and nautsiti (human behaviors replicated in deities) Corn mother very sexualized, mimicked heterosexual relationships. Cosmic harmony men and women come together. Modesty, shame, and virginity (applied to europeans, not native. Serial monogamy = not for life(regarding marriage) Virginity, promiscuity and the eye of the beholder. Europeans often confuse nakedness as a sign of indecency naked = advertising for sex. Virgin land (land is a fruitful womb, allows men to reproduce) **importance between the relation of land and sex. Of birds, feet and native beauty (john davis, 1798) Serial monogamy v. till death do us part.