ANTH 2051 : Exam 2 Study Guide
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Be able to: define terms, explain their significance, link theoretical concepts with their authors; Age set: group of boy who are initiated together; havaltnu: being the same. Identity (share these ideas and think of themselves as different from other phrarties) Misogyny: hatred of women, terror of women. 15& 55: political alignment between villages who initiate their sons together and intermarry, shared regional culture of initiation, regional male initiation age sets, exchange of in marriage, but fight each other in ritual warfare. It"s semen that bestows this power, thus only produced and transmitted by men: semen contains jerungdu, maleness is not natural it must be socially created (achieved, & boys don"t have it, semen sperm. Aatmowombu (pg. 17: protective female hamlet spirit, her cries are suppose to animate the sacred flute, she"s a protector who alerts her hamlet to enemy attack, spirits are thought to be souls of deceased prominent women of the hamlet.
