ANT E101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gilbert Herdt, Premarital Sex, Trobriand Islands
Document Summary
Refers to cultural rules and expectations regarding sexual activity. Sexuality is shaped by both biology and culture. All societies have some rules governing proper conduct. They have rules what is sexual appropriate within the society. Example, premarital sex: trobriand islanders and samoans. Parents tend to encourage kids to have premarital sex. Married men can engage in sexual intercourse with hosts wife. To visit their negligence and have sexual intercourse. Homosexual sex:less tolerated in societies that seek to increase population; such societies also intolerant of infanticide and abortion. Boys engage in sex with older men; necessary for boys to become men. Happens more frequently in societies with marked sex segregation. Organized in small clusters of villages live in the jungle and practice framing. Tend to move frequently to avoid enemies and prevent taxing resources. Only stayed in one place for a few years. Due to conflict and to gain more resources. Lived among them, going back and forth.
