ANT 3302 Lecture Notes - Judith Butler, Margaret Mead, Incest Taboo
11 Mar 2014
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Feminist anthropologists focused on male and female personality differences taken from psychoanalytic theories. Questions about gender identity contributed to understanding in their relation to ethnic and social identity. Linked primitive and civilized processes to male and female childrens development into adulthood. Civilized mind- differs from primitive in terms of whats conscious and unconscious. Argued that the mind of the civilized western europeans was like the primitives at one point. Civilized people repressed certain behaviors and ideas over time, still observed in primitive societies. Found among western and non western cultures. John mclennan defines as a region in which primitive people worship plant or animal as a god. Incest taboo- rule requiring sexual relations to occur outside biological family. Freud suggests primal horde memory that everyone replays during psychological development. 2 psych developmental processes- oedipus complex, electra complex. Women are confined to domestic sphere of nurturing babies and caring for household, because they are seen as naturally inferior.
