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| Domestic Public Dichotomy |
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| work at home versus more valued work outside |
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| marked difference in male and female biology, beyond breasts and genitals |
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| the tasks and activities that a culture assigns to each sex |
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| oversimplified, strongly held views ablout males and females |
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| unequal distribution of social resources between men and women |
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| descent traced through women only |
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| descent traced through men only |
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| married couples reside in husband's community |
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| married couples resides in wife's community |
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| mother-centered household with no resident husband-father |
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| Patrilineal-Patrifocal Complex |
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| male supremacy on patrilineality, patrilocality, and warfare |
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| political system ruled by men |
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| sexual attraction to persons of the opposite sex, same sex, or either sex |
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sex- biological construct
gender- cultural construct |
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stateless society
Men hunted
Women inferior bc they didn't travel far distances
High male prestige may not entail economic or political power held by men over their families |
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| Exceptions to to generalities in the division of labor |
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Hidatsa women made boats
Pawnee women worked wood
Mbuti women hunt small, slow animals
Bahia Brazil women transport water on their heads |
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| Who has final say in infant? |
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| Does society allow multiple spouses |
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| Double standard in premarital sex |
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| Extramarital sex double standard? |
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| mostly equal, highly disproportionate in looking at men and women alone |
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| Some recurrent gender patterns |
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women harrassed when they move from the private to public space
gender stratification decreased when men and women made equal contributions |
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gender stratification more when men provided more for the diet
equal when gathering/domestic & public spheres aren't separated
less equal when hunting and fishin
men are able to me more mobile
war and trade contribute to status inequality
tend to be bilateral |
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| exception to hunting foragers |
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| Agata of Philippines women gather but also hunt with dogs while carrying their babies |
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ju/'hoansi San
interdependent gender roles
however, sedentary dev of domestic public dichotomy |
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| Gender among Horticulturalists |
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women tend to be primary cultivators
matrilineal&patrilineal
patrilocality&matrilocality
resources minimal and war minimal |
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| Hort. Matrilineal & Matrilocal ex |
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high female status
Malaysia matriliny gave rice to female descent
considerable influence in the house
Iroquois women major subsistence role, men fought war
women longhouses, decided who lived there |
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| male travel and a prominent female economic role reduced gender stratification and promoted a high female status |
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| Matrifocal Societies example |
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| Igbo- patrilineal, patrilocal, polygynous |
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they exist but not as mirrors or patriachy
Minangkabau view men and women as cooperative partners for the common good rather than competitors ruled by self interest |
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| Patrilineal-Patrifocal Communities |
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Yanomami
densely pop. male female avoidance
sparsely pop. male female non avoidance |
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| Gender among agriculturalists |
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certain techniques assigned to men bc of their build
men tend to be subsistence providers
nuclear family more prominent
Betsileo- men and women hold political roles |
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women inferior
India
violence |
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machine tools and mass production reduced the need for female workers
feminism |
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US tendency to see SO as fixed and biological
Brazil transvestites 3rd gender |
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| nuclear family in which one is born and grows up |
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| nuclear family establishes when one marries and has children |
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| group based on belief in shared ancestry |
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| Muslims of Western Bosnia |
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nuclear families lacked autonomy
extended family households called zadruga |
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matrilineal extended family compounds called tarawads, a residential complez headed by a senior woman and her brother
marriage was a ritual |
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| Industrialism and Family Organization |
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not being tied to farms meant mobility
neolocality- couplle establishes new residence
poorer NA deal with poverty by extended family households |
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Women joining men in the cash workforce
Job demands compete with romantic attachments
US divorce rate has risen
rate of growth in single parent families increased |
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geographic mobility
nuclear family
family and the band
don't reside neolocally but join a band of either M or F
many lack year round band organization |
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matrilineal OR patrilineal descent
ascribed |
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unilineal descent group based on demonstrated descent
traced |
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unlineal descent group based on stipulated descent
not traced |
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flexible descent rule, neither patrilineal nor matrilineal
achieved |
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four parental kin terms
M, F, FB=MB and MZ=FZ
nuclear
industrial and foraging |
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| ego's direct ancestors and descendants |
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splits the mothers side or the father's
4 parental kin terms M=MZ, F=FB, MB and FZ
unlineal
hort, past, ag |
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same term for parents and their siblings
just two parental kin
M=MZ=FZ, F=FB=MB
ambilineal
ag, hort, for |
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| six separate parental kin |
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| man weds two or more women |
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| woman weds a group of brothers |
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women and marry women if father has no male heirs
woman husband and wife
genitor and pater |
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Marriage
Venezuela and Brazil |
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Yanomami
boys marry cross cousins- wife/brother in law |
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Instinctive Horror- genetically programmed
Biological Degeneration- bad offspring
Attempt and Contempt- Malinowski
Marry out or Die Out |
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| marriage of people from same group |
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| Leach and marriage rights |
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1.est. a legal father and mother
2. giving a monopoly in sexuality of the other
3. giving rights to the labor of the other
4. giving rights over the other's property
5. est. a joint fund of property
6. est. a socially sig "relationship of affinity" |
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| marital gift by husband's group to wife's group |
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| a marital exchange in which the wife's group provides substantial gifts to the husband's family |
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| more than two spouses simultaneously, aka polygamy |
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| widower marries sister of his deceased wife |
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| widow marries brother of her deceased husband |
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| Sculptures that aren't for 'beauty' |
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| communal art, not loners like western |
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