ANTH100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Conation, Essentialism, Australian Nationalism

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Robert Park

Document Summary

Structural violence - violence that results from the way that political and economic forces structure risk fro various forms of suffering within a population. Most common - makes people susceptible to harmful diseases. Structural violence may produce forms of suffering such as. In haiti, the poor are victims of structural violence. Diseases such as aids are very common. Various structural problems in haiti, including the economy, environment and military, contribute to the suffering that is caused by the social structure. Feminist anthropologists did not like the gender imbalance of their own societies and began to examine male dominance in other societies. Wanted to know if male dominance was a common characteristic of societies in general. Gender is often de ned to be the symbolism of differences between the sexes that helps to explain social roles and social relations. May also be used to distinguish different categories within men and women genders.