Anthropological perspectives on gender roles, gender identity, and sexuality across cultures.
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- In anthropology, what is the key distinction between sex and gender?
- Sex refers to biological characteristics; gender refers to culturally constructed roles and identities.
- What are gender roles?
- Culturally specific behaviors, responsibilities, and expectations assigned to individuals based on their gender.
- Define patriarchy from an anthropological perspective.
- A social system in which men hold primary power and authority in family, government, and society.
- Define matriarchy in anthropological context.
- A theoretical social system in which women hold primary authority (rarely documented as a dominant pattern).
- What is a matrilineal society?
- A society in which kinship and inheritance are traced through the female line.
- What are two-spirit people?
- Native American individuals who have a gender identity that does not fit the binary male-female categories.
- What anthropological concept refers to culturally recognized gender categories beyond man and woman?
- Third gender or multiple gender systems.
- In Samoa, what term describes individuals who take on some female gender roles?
- Fa'afafine.
- Who was Margaret Mead and what did she contribute to gender anthropology?
- A pioneering anthropologist whose work on gender in Samoa and Papua New Guinea challenged Western assumptions about gender roles.
- What does the term heteronormativity mean?
- The cultural assumption that heterosexuality and binary gender are the normal or default orientations.
- What is the anthropological concept of gender performativity?
- The idea that gender is not an inherent identity but something we actively perform and construct through repeated behaviors.
- What term describes the devaluation of women and femininity in societies?
- Sexism or gender discrimination.
- Define the public-private sphere distinction in gender anthropology.
- The division between public (government, economics, typically male-associated) and private (domestic, family, typically female-associated) spheres of activity.
- In many foraging societies, what is the primary gendered division of labor?
- Men typically hunt large animals; women typically gather plants and small game.
- What does sexual dimorphism refer to?
- The physical differences in size, appearance, and other characteristics between males and females of the same species.
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