ANT331H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Premarital Sex, Pederasty, Third Gender
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Explain sociobiological theory behind certain behavior: (must talk about 3 points in explanation: must be cross cultural, must be seen outside the human species, has to be associated with reproduction - have reproductive consequences. Limitations and examples - on test for each definition give limitations and examples. Measuring cross cultural sexuality: questionnaires & interviews. In understanding of sexual concepts: varying meanings cross culturally. Methods: participant observation, governmental or health researchers, psychologists, cross checking. Sccs (standard cross cultural sample: collected data from 186 small scale societies from across the world, compared societies from developed vs. developing world, archaeological record, human sexuality of the past. Emotions toward marital relations: vary cross culturally. Less emotional commitment: polygyny - greater amount of polygyny reflected lower emotional commitment. Female sexual freedom: matrilocal - female residence, matrilineal - inheritance follows through a female line, thus they have greater sexual choice and freedom, e. g.
