ANTH100 Chapter : Ch 11 - 18 textbook notes, w/ defintions

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Nicole Hayes

Document Summary

Sexual dimorphism: physical differences based on genetic differences between females and males. Reproductive physiology: only women become pregnant, give birth and produce milk. Cultural construction of gender: the idea that the characteristics a people attribute to males and females are culturally, not biologically, determined cultures have distinctive ideas about males and females, use these ideas t define manhood/masculinity and womanhood/femininity. No single culture s constructions are based entirely on the biological differences between the sexes. Patrilineal, horticultural people who live in villages of 100 300 people. Gender is constructed based on female-male differences that are not recognized by people outside of papua, new guinea. The hua believe that later in life each gender can become like the other in certain respects. Females have an excess of nu grow faster, age more slowly and are unattractively moist. Men contain a smaller amount of nu have difficulty with growth and maintenance of vitality later in life, but are attractively dry.