ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Oil Wrestling, Highland Games, Pelvis
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How may of the differences between males and females are biological, genetic, imposed by society. Why do we encourage boys to express themselves through muscular power. Are they exaggerating natural male qualities or are they acting in an unnatural way. If society left them alone, would boys and girls behave the same way. Perhaps the differences we observe are not biological at all. Society imposes pressure on individuals to differentiate between genders. To see how gender roles came about we observe people who still live in tribes. In africa: men hunt, deal with carcasses and make tools. Women rear children build huts and gather food. Female and male contribution to food are about equal. Athletic hunting of males has resulted in muscular body. Female body is made for child bearing. Male muscular power shown: fruit carrying contest somewhere, log tossing contest in highland games in scotland, oil wrestling contest in turkey.