AN341 Lecture Notes - Body Piercing, Body Painting, Hazing
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Corresponds from stages of bachelorhood to marriage. Only men can create men (rebirth); male simulation of child birth; fellation insemination. Gender is not defined as ones external features/ anatomical maleness. Women"s gender is ascribed- born with gender: cannot be a male when around the women community. Enacted via rituals, symbols and behaviours (spatial, work, dress code) Third gender- liminal (in-between) either scared or devalued, served to reinforce the dictums division. Masculine qualities (but not male: yet have the same privileges as men do.
