Anth, 27 Mar 2002

[adric]

still coughing (worrisome)

Mon finish gender, start childhood, do not read articles on childrearing (read CP), Exam III Wed


more on Gender Rituals

Masai:

• inforce (warrior) male dominance


• provide instruction for adult roles


• establish links between youth and elders


• weeding out process , ideal male


• establish peer links

failure consequences:

• feast wasted


• mother (or surrogate) punished for raising her)


• family cattle holdigns stampeded from pen

Yemen:

• celebration of male: reaffirming status of male


• donating money to start his life

Turkey:

• coming of age
• peer links
• distance from parents
• gender differentiation

subincision:

• (Aboriginees)
  
• secondary or tertiarty coming-of age rite
  
• (20 years span)
  
• penis is split and sand or ash is added to cut, causing recogniziable scarring

Roles and Activitites of Males and Females:

• old theory: based on biology:
  
  • strength
  • child birth
  • child care
  
  


• division of labour data from table CP p 105


• photo: Haiti water run, headtotting


• women can headtote upto 70 % (spending ?% more energy)


• man with a pack can carry upto 40 % body weight (spending 35% more energy)


• men seems unable to headtote (center of gravity)


• photo: mayan woman totting firewood 50+ lbs


• chart: 1995 study: Occupations with the smallest participation of women (USA)


• Russia: after WWII 70% of all construction was by women


• over 50% Russian truck drivers female


• chart: ( 1995 )women dominated jobs (USA)


• if not biology?:
  
  
  
  • subsistence modes:
    
    • (Washo Indians: hunt and gather together)
      
    • (Hamar: herding community, men own herds)
  
  
  • ties to home:
    
    • Islamist purdah
    
    
    • housing,seclusion
    • clothing
    
    
    • image: burka? body scarf
    • de-emphasizing physical appearance
    • similarity to habit/wimple
    • safety
    
    
    
    
    
    
    • excerpts from 1950s N. American Home Economics
    textbooks
  
  
  
  
  
  


• control of key resources


• trade of exchange


• gender preferences


• religious traditions

Tuareg (N. Africa):

• expectation of male modesty


• men wear head coverings, women do not

ho: essay questions for Exam III (Wed)

Comments

Re: 1950's N. American Home Ec Textbooks

[(Anonymous)]

oops, forgot to sign last Anon post. sorry about that, Adric.

~N