Anthropologu Study Guide
Boxer, “Manipulating Meaning” (in C&C)
Keenan, “Norm Makers, Norm Breakers” (on blackboard)
Wright, “Politicization of Culture” (on blackboard)
Guneratne and Bjork, “Village Walks” (in C&C)
“Kinship and Family” (intro to section five in C&C)
“Identity, Roles and Groups” (intro to section six in C&C)
Lugu Lake Mosuo Cultural Development Association (www.mosuoproject.org), “Matriarchal/Matrilineal” and “Walking Marriage”
Hand-Out, Questions/Responses about Mosuo of Lake Lugu (on blackboard)
Gottleib, “Gender and Sexuality” (on blackboard)
“China: Women of the Country” (DVD) (also available on hulu.com and youtube)
Abu-Lughod, “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?” (in C&C)
“Hijra” and “Kathoey” from video “Middle Sexes” (in-class)
Fish, “Mixed Blood” (in C&C)
“Does Race Exist?” (Nova website)
Ritzer, “Race and Ethnicity” (on blackboard)
Bowen, “The Myth of Ethnic Conflict” (on blackboard)
1) “patrilineal descent-A rule of descent relating consanguine kin on the basis of descent through males only. Ex: 2) “matrilineal descent- A rule of descent relating consanguine kin on the basis of descent through females only. 3) “bilateral descent-A rule of descent relating someone to a group of consanguine kin through both males and females. 4) “walking marriage”-Men will walk to the house of their ‘partner’ at night, but return to their own home in the morning. EX: Mosuo community; women most often have different partners. 5) “matriarchy”-Mothers have ventral role in family, mothers are the leaders 6) “gender”-Shaped by everything and everyone around us, and how those around us themselves interpret our gender, the expectations they bring with them to understanding our gender; EX:Male nurses, female fire fighters 7) “sexuality” 8) “third gender”-individual who are neither male, nor female transgender EX: Middlesex and Jappy Boys 9) “burqa”/”veiling”-The veil that Muslim women must wear. It is appropriate dress in their society
Keenan, “Norm Makers, Norm Breakers” (on blackboard)
Wright, “Politicization of Culture” (on blackboard)
Guneratne and Bjork, “Village Walks” (in C&C)
“Kinship and Family” (intro to section five in C&C)
“Identity, Roles and Groups” (intro to section six in C&C)
Lugu Lake Mosuo Cultural Development Association (www.mosuoproject.org), “Matriarchal/Matrilineal” and “Walking Marriage”
Hand-Out, Questions/Responses about Mosuo of Lake Lugu (on blackboard)
Gottleib, “Gender and Sexuality” (on blackboard)
“China: Women of the Country” (DVD) (also available on hulu.com and youtube)
Abu-Lughod, “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?” (in C&C)
“Hijra” and “Kathoey” from video “Middle Sexes” (in-class)
Fish, “Mixed Blood” (in C&C)
“Does Race Exist?” (Nova website)
Ritzer, “Race and Ethnicity” (on blackboard)
Bowen, “The Myth of Ethnic Conflict” (on blackboard)
1) “patrilineal descent-A rule of descent relating consanguine kin on the basis of descent through males only. Ex: 2) “matrilineal descent- A rule of descent relating consanguine kin on the basis of descent through females only. 3) “bilateral descent-A rule of descent relating someone to a group of consanguine kin through both males and females. 4) “walking marriage”-Men will walk to the house of their ‘partner’ at night, but return to their own home in the morning. EX: Mosuo community; women most often have different partners. 5) “matriarchy”-Mothers have ventral role in family, mothers are the leaders 6) “gender”-Shaped by everything and everyone around us, and how those around us themselves interpret our gender, the expectations they bring with them to understanding our gender; EX:Male nurses, female fire fighters 7) “sexuality” 8) “third gender”-individual who are neither male, nor female transgender EX: Middlesex and Jappy Boys 9) “burqa”/”veiling”-The veil that Muslim women must wear. It is appropriate dress in their society