ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Male Prostitution, Stoicism, Personal Grooming
19 Mar 2013
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A set of cultural assumptions about gender roles and values. Relations between the genders that people learn as members of their society. Sometimes inappropriately referred to as berdaches (french for male prostitute) Based on person inclination, spiritual calling, or parental selection. Typically perform economic duties associated with the opposite sex. Choose clothing consistent with social role (not biological sex) Sexual activity and marriage partners are chosen based on social role. Within extremely sex-segregated society they are free to move about women"s quarters and share in their. Act as both male servants and homosexual prostitutes activities. Don unique hairstyle, clothing and personal grooming. Retain their legal status as men and can revert to male status if they choose. Men who wear female clothing, and ideally renounce sexual desire and practice by undergoing a physical emasculation known as the nirvana or rebirth operation. North america framed in internal states and predispositions i. e. trapped in the body of the opposite sex.
