ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Time Complexity, Biopower, Wage Labour
Document Summary
Gender: kampung life (life in the malay village, adat: older cultural older in malay, Islam: cultural diversity in the world of islam: men, women, authority, and spiritual essence, fathers and mothers in family life. Authority rests with the father: gender and authority. Men are beliefed to have a stronger spiritual essence. Men have stronger moral character: gender symbolism organizes hierarchy of authority. Men: should make the decisions and have authority over women for the good of society. Spiritual vulnerability over the female life cycle. Stage 1) youth, virgins, at their spiritually weakest stage (need to be under protective male authority: cultural ordering of space. Stage 2) sexually mature women: threat to men, gained spiritual strength, expected to self regulate, two types of cases of women. Wife (under protection authority of her husband) Stage 3) elderly woman: strong as a man, she has strong will power, no longer deemed a threat to men, looked at with much respect.
