ANT100Y1 Chapter Notes -Gender Role, Child Care, Clitoridectomy

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Boddy

Document Summary

Sexual dimorphism: marked differences in male & female biology/phenotype. Gender cultural constructions of sex differences. Gender roles vary with environment, economy, adaptive strategy, type of political system. Gender role task and activities a culture assigns to the sexes. Gender stratification unequal distribution of rewards, power, prestige, resources, human rights/freedom b/t men and women. Child care women have primary authority for children in 2/3 of societies. Public/private spheres are least separated: hierarchy least marked, aggression/competition discouraged, men and women can do same roles/tasks/jobs. Ju/hoansi san men and women both hunted/gathered, spent same amount of time working, doing each others jobs, sharing ethos. Patrilocality/patrilineal descent keep male relatives together, advantage for warfare men of same family stick together, intensified production. Patrilineal-patrilocal complex common in papua new guinea. Agriculturalists: men are more cultivators, only 15% of societies had female main workers. Females role more in the home, more nuclear families arise. Betsileo women from madagascar contribute 1/3 hours in rice production.