ANTH 2051 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Phratry, Origin Myth, Nosebleed
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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. 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, but fight each other in ritual warfare. Supreme essence of maleness in body, personality, and spirit: means the strength to do battles: not just to defend oneself, one"s family, and property but also to prove or reaffirm the fact of one"s masculine powers. 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. Protective female hamlet spirit: her cries are suppose to animate the sacred flute. She"s a protector who alerts her hamlet to enemy attack.