ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Late Capitalism, Tsetse Fly, Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi
10 Feb 2014
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Harris chapter 14 - sexuality and gender stratification: no absolute gender roles, definition of what is normal varies from one culture to another, gender relations, even in industrial societies have a long way to go. Sex versus gender: etic sexual identity: chromosomes, interior and exterior sex organs, secondary sexual characteristics: body build, breast size, fat deposits, etc, the emic definition of gender varies from one society to another. Gender: refers to learned cultural and psychological attributes. Anthropologists gender to denote the variable emic meanings associated with culturally defined, sex based identities. Gender identity: refers to a fundamental sense of how a person feels and his/her identity, whether male, female or blended. Male and female sexual strategies: quest for sexual pleasure motivates much behaviour, mode of reproduction, human mating strategies evolved through natural selection to solve problems associated with the need to reproduce and rear dependent offspring to reproductive age. *males are interesting in spreading their genes around.
