TBB199Y1 Lecture : TBB199H1S.Feb72012.SP.docx
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Huli society is a very male dominant society. Greater authority and decision making power in the domestic realm. Afriorism that female have less mana (social knowledge, responsibility) meaning women are less socialized so they are more volatile like children. Male privilege and encourage and enforce through normalized wife beating. Discourses that women are unpredictable and not socialize so it is a norm for a man to discipline their wife. What criteria we are replying on when we say emotional. The criteria will also be ethnocentric by nature. Makes people reflect on people way of life and custom, judge themselves as inferior, sometimes. In huli the cultural change caused huli people to believe their cultural is less modern, moral. Globalization, they are part of nation, they are part of world. Huli seen as backwards in papa new guinea because huli is war-like, know for a style of aggression (raise voices, way of speaking) interactional style that seen aggressive and intimidating.