ANTH-110 Study Guide - Final Guide: Infibulation, World Health Organization, Sepsis
9 Aug 2016
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Note: these review questions are not graded but rather are designed to help you pull out the pertinent information in each reading and to reinforce your learning. Review questions: introduction to gender, politics, and reproduction . Brettell, c. b. , & sargent, c. f. (2013). 2: outline the different beliefs and practices that reveal how reproductive behaviour is culturally patterned. In the past 40 years, anthropologists have sought to use cross-cultural data from preindustrial societies to help resolve women"s health problems in the industrialized world. For example, comparative research on birth practices has raised questions regarding the medicalization of childbirth in the us. Since the 1970s, anthropological interest has turned to the linkages among cultural constructions of gender, the cultural shaping of motherhood, and reproductive beliefs and practices. a) A woman becomes an adult by childbearing, and her prestige may be greatly enhanced by bearing numerous male children. b)
