U69 Anthro 190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Start Ii, Social Alienation, Huipil
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Gender: what"s the difference: sex - inherited, biological differences between males and females, gender - culturally constructed ideas about sex differences. Third genders today: muxe of mexico, people who are born biologically as men, dress as women, but considered neither, perform traditional women"s roles - cooking, housekeeping, hairdressing, have relationships with men (heterosexual or homosexual) Don"t consider themselves gay because they"re in a relationship with a muxe: berdache, or two-spirit people , found in north america, biologically men, but perform women gender roles, high spiritual power - considered intelligent. They would prepare bodies for burial: gender roles and gender ideology, gender roles - the culturally prescribed behavior associated with men and women. The specific acts that you do that are gendered: gender ideology - the culturally prescribed values assigned to the task and status of men and women, gender in practice: reconstructing male vs. First, how are pots made: hand pottery, coiling of pots, molds, wheel.
