POLS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Patrilocal Residence, Matrilocal Residence, Lineage Ii
4 Apr 2016
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Indigenous systems of gender and politics: the impact of alternative. South africa is known for embracing gay marriage and including in their constitution that people cannot be discluded. Sangoma"s are healers, tends to be women, but gay men can also be them. Gender after africa: africa has been doing gender" all along. What can africa do for gender: often feminist theory takes its own view of gender and power as universal i. e patriarchy is the same everywhere. Gender theory in debt to africans: with indigenous, colonial and post-colonial contexts africa demonstrates multiple meanings of and ways of doing gender, africa has a continents worth of past . How can this be: must understand kinship if you are going to understand gender, dual-sex system in which both sexes are significant contributors. Lateral succession is important, means that when a leader dies the other of that generation remain elders: you will always be an elder until you die.
