ANTH-110 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Untraceable, Labrys, Feminist Theory
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 culture, sexuality, and the body . Brettell, c. b. , & sargent, c. f. (2013). Introduction to culture, sexuality, and the body. (pp. Sexuality has been a focus of research in anthropology since 1992. Early anthropological research on sexually contributed to our current understanding of sexuality as culturally constructed a learned in specific historical contexts. In contrast to contemporary studies that take sexuality as their core focus, classic anthropological monographs reported exotic sexual practices in the course of holistic ethnographic description. b) Although sexuality, like all human cultural activity, is grounded in the body, the body"s structure, physiology, and functioning do not directly or simply determine the configuration or meaning of sexuality. Rather, sexuality is in large part culturally constructed. c)
