ANTH 3240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Grammatical Gender, Gender Identity, Transvestism
17 Apr 2016
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Age of 3-4 boys and girls start to assume different responsibilities. Boys are given more free time for play. By 14 or 15 boys are entered into the society of males. Boys engage in sexual acts with each other as a form of only playing. Given much more sexual freedom than girls. Expected to have sex with many different woman. Caregivers- cooking- weaving- gathering no political or little power. Not homosexual: no samoan words for homosexuality or being gay. Not transsexual: don"t see themselves as wanting to be the other gender only a few have sex change operations. Not attracted to other fafafinas, attracted to masculine males. Sexual relations with men were seen as a consequences of being a fafafina not as a determiner. Most masculine men had sex with fafafinas when there was a lack of women. Marriage to women was not possible since it was forfeited the fafafine status.
