ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 43: Gilbert Herdt, Margaret Mead, Premarital Sex
19 Oct 2017
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Codes of gender: gender as a perfromance, gender as embodied, conscious or unconscious, gender as dynamic. Listen to the podcast and write off the importance of the cog. Last class : gender versus sex, gender as culturally constructed, gender equality / inequality. Sexuality: refers to cultural rules and expectations regarding sexual activity, all societies have some rules governing proper conduct, e. g. premarital sex: trobriand islanders and samoans. Margaret mead on sexuality: sex and sexuality in samoa, samoans. Permissive (allowing) of sex before marriage, encourage children to masturbate and experiment sexually with each other. Extramarital (occurring outside marriage) sex: chukchee of siberia. Married men can reneged in sexual intercourse with host"s wife (neighbour) Less tolerated in societies that seek to increase population; such societies also intolerant of infanticide and abortion: heterosexual sex: Listen to the podcast for the de nition and terminology.
