ANTHRCUL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Margaret Mead, Khanith, Social Forces

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 101
• Professor: Holly Peters- Golden

Document Summary

Sex is biological, gender is social and cultural. Sex: biological attributes of men and women. Gender: qualities that are culturally constructed, defined, and elaborated. Biological determinism: the idea that all human behavior is innate, determined by genes, brain size, or other biological attributes. This theory stands in contrast to the notion that human behavior is determined by culture or other social forces. Ju" hoansi: gender equality intersex: neither unambiguously male nor female: navajo: nadle. Spiritually gifted, shamans: dominican republic: guevedoce. Xy: sexually ambiguous separate category: sambia (new guinea): kwolu-aatmwol. Non-binary gender: native american: two-spirit person, high status. India: hijra, biological males that were neither men nor women . Perform female gender in some ways, deploy male behavior in other ways: oman: xanith. Biological males, not men or women legal rights of men. Can become men if they give up their homosexuality and marry a woman. Rural albania: socially transform a daughter into a son.