ANT204H5 Lecture Notes - Masculinity
Document Summary
Short essay is from the study guide or testing your understanding of the concepts and how well you can communicate it. Big concepts and main ideas from the books. Thanksgiving picture by the prof"s daughter, that she wants to make come true. Emotional gender response to the meat or raw meat (in this case, the turkey) There"s nothing female/male about reaching in and pulling body parts from the turkey, but we"re trained to be squeamish about dead animals and such or getting grossed out; it"s a trained response that becomes innate in us. Thanksgiving ritual: everyday is a story about ourselves; also has to do with gifts; indexing the nation of canadian or american culture. Gift giving is often the idea of who gives more: carving the bird and distributing to the family (male dominance) even though he didn"t cook the bird (turkey) Ingesting turkey is actually ingesting ideas of the nation, of gender, and gift giving.
