ANT100Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Patrilineality, Matrilocal Residence, Matriarchy
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Gender refers to cultural constructions of sex differences. There may be more than two recognized genders in a given society. Economic determinants of gender status include freedom or autonomy (in disposing ones labour and its fruits) and social power (control over the lives, labour and produce of others) Gender stratification decreases when men and women made roughly ewual contributions to subsistence. When gathering is prominent, gender status tends to be more equal than when it is hunting and fishing are the main subsistence activities. Hunter-gathers have less gender stratification than food producers do is that the domestic public dichotomy is less developed among foragers. Horticulturalist societies: women are the main producers. The minangkaau view men and women as cooperative partners for the common good than competitors ruled by self-interest. People gain prestige when they promote social harmony rather than by vying for power.
