ANT 3302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Cassava, Foreplay, Prone Position
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Mehinaku men and women: sociology of marriage, sex, and affection (14) Make insulting sexual jokes in each others" presence. Engage in knock-down, drag out brawls in the course of certain rituals. Price the men pay in fear of women and insecurity about their masculine selves. Mehinaku masculine culture- oppositional nature of male and female interaction that draws the attention of the villagers. They are united in enduring relationships of work, residence, kinship, and affection. Division of labor- separation of tasks, a basis for interdependence: separation of jobs to men and women is the fundamental economic contract, 6 haystack-shaped houses that round the central plaza- focus on female activities. Late morning hours: women making hammocks, processing manioc flour, spinning cotton or making twice cord. Compatible with child care: village is perceived as two concentric rings. Innermost ring- plaza frequented place and the men"s house. Public regions for casual male interaction and organization of community activities.
