ANTH 1003 : STUDY GUIDE FOR TEST 3
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Arapesh: both sexes are expected to act in ways americans consider feminine, both sexes cared for children and were nurturers, neither sex was aggressive. Mundugamor: both sexes were what american culture would call masculine, both sexes were aggressive, neither sex was nurturing to children. The idea that gender characteristics are not inborn but rather constructed within each culture. All societies recognize (minimally): two sexes: male and female, two genders: masculine and feminine. Gender characteristics are the result of historical, economic, and political forces acting within each culture. Concepts of masculine and feminine vary among cultures, and change over time. People who cross-over or occupy a culturally accepted intermediate position in the binary male female gender construction: which gender/sex categories do the bugis recognize? (do know these terms and about the gender roles of each) Bugis: an ethnic group that lives in south sulawesi, indonesia, predominantly muslim, like much of indonesia, research on bugis gender by sharyn davies.
