ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Enculturation, Bar And Bat Mitzvah, Fraternities And Sororities
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Gender: social/cultural characteristic assumed to be linked to a man. Gender ideology: the totality of ideas that a society has about sex, gender, and the natures of men and women, including their sexuality, and the relations between the genders. Friedl"s article on gender inequality has some fundamental issues. Control of resources: men hunt, women do less. This is an interplay of biology and culture. When there is large game and scarcity, men are more powerful and women have low status. Also, males acquire status by controlling the distribution of scarce resources. Gender relations are more egalitarian when there is smaller game and other sources of food. Men as ceo control the distribution by controlling pay rates for men and women. Patterned repetitive behavior is usually focused on a supernatural realm but can also be more secular. Periodic ritual: performed annually to mark important events. Nonperiodic rituals: occur in response to unplanned events or to.
