ANT204H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Don Kulick, Latin American Culture, Balkan Sworn Virgins
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What are the cultural logics of travesti identity. Normativity (what it is and how people live through norms) Hand out of essay question 1: new deadline: october 13, 2013 at 5pm. Don kulick writes a powerful argue, for us to train ourselves to think outside for what we think is a binary proposition. With binary, it is any kind of things that have two parts to it. These two symbols we see everyday, ie. when we go to the bathroom: we hardly mention this because we coordinate ourselves to these two signs. The kind of logic in terms of travesti lives are organized are extremely different. He spends enough time with travesti to leave behind this biological based gender. Transsexulaism or third gender identities only make sense in a cultural context where the primary binary is male/female (and where male female is thought to be determined by sexual organs) Non-man : women, queens, viados, travesti, some clients.
