ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Matriarchy, Egalitarianism
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What is the diference between sex and gender: sex is biological, gender is cultural/social, sex refers to the biological and physiological characteristics that deine men and women. Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women. Is female to male as nature is to culture? : tension between. The search for a genuinely egalitarian, let alone matriarchal, culture, has proven fruitless. : we"ve looked and we didn"t ind much matriarchal history. Matriarchy: power dynamics that favour females, a social system in which women head both family and state/government. Patriarchy: power dynamics that favour males, a social system in which men head both family and state/government. A kinship system in which group membership is passed exclusively though female/male lines of descent respectively. However, lines of descent do not necessarily determine forms of governance: doesn"t necessarily pass on power.
