ANT E101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Margaret Mead, Arapesh Languages, American Anthropologist
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Gender was all about biology a large assumption (20th century) Gender is universal that gender roles are the same all around the world. Studied gender in papua new guinea in 1930"s- among the arapesh, the. Papua new guinea are hard to locate. Studies three tribes: arapesh, the mundugumor and the tchambuli. Arapesh both men and women were gentle. Entional gentle, took turn to take of kids, cooked and traded. Mundugumor both women and men were violent. Always fighting and fighting about their responsibilities. Women were dominated, leadership roles and hunted. First to show that gender is culturally constructed. And other anthropologists that came after her showed , via cross-cultural research, that gender roles and ideals vary around the world. As such, gender is not something we are born knowing . Yet, people still think about gender as if it is the result of biology. Why might this kind of thinking be dangerous or problematic.
