Gendered Anthropology by Teresa Del Valle (ed.)

By Teresa Del Valle (ed.)

Within the final 3 a long time, growth has happened within the learn of gender inside anthropology. "Gendered Anthropology" deals a thought-provoking exam of present debates targeting intercourse and gender, race, ethnicity, politics and economics. It presents insights that are nonetheless too frequently missing in mainstream anthropology. "Gendered Anthropology" might be of specific price to undergraduates and teachers in social anthropology and gender reports.

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By Teresa Del Valle (ed.)

Within the final 3 a long time, growth has happened within the learn of gender inside anthropology. "Gendered Anthropology" deals a thought-provoking exam of present debates targeting intercourse and gender, race, ethnicity, politics and economics. It presents insights that are nonetheless too frequently missing in mainstream anthropology. "Gendered Anthropology" might be of specific price to undergraduates and teachers in social anthropology and gender reports.

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Our considerations have been prompted by an observation we perceive as puzzling and in need of some comment. The observation is the existence of a gap—and this gap is in itself the problem, or rather a paradox. The gap is between two central areas of study in social anthropology: kinship and gender. The paradox is that in kinship studies, from the earliest days, the central characters are quite literally men and women and the various relations between them. These are represented through kinship diagrams made up by circles and triangles to denote the two sexes.

Our considerations have been prompted by an observation we perceive as puzzling and in need of some comment. The observation is the existence of a gap—and this gap is in itself the problem, or rather a paradox. The gap is between two central areas of study in social anthropology: kinship and gender. The paradox is that in kinship studies, from the earliest days, the central characters are quite literally men and women and the various relations between them. These are represented through kinship diagrams made up by circles and triangles to denote the two sexes.

All this may sound very Victorian. It may be argued that, although class society has not changed in a fundamental way, the sexual revolution and contraception have done away with this tangle of sexual restraints and, moreover, that the traditional monogamous nuclear family is falling to pieces anyway. This is true to an extent. In effect, a shift in meaning has occurred that affects the way the image of women is construed. In an increasingly competitive society, fragmented by the social division of labour into a milliard of hierarchically ordered functions, individual achievement and function are thought to determine a person’s social position almost to the exclusion of such other criteria as family origin.

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