ANTH 101 1st Edition Lecture 28 Outline of Last Lecture I Animatism II Totemism III Social Control Outline of Current Lecture II Sex Marriage and Family Current Lecture II Sex Marriage and Family A Sexual Relations all societies have cultural rules to regulate sexual relations rules concerning when how and between whom sex takes place varies across cultures B Sex observable physical characteristics that distinguish two kinds of humans C Gender cultural construction of beliefs and behaviors considered appropriate for each sex D Supernumeracy or Third Genders more than the standard two genders exist in society prescence of ambiguous genitalia plays no role in the creation maintenance and affiliation with genders examples Forbidden City Eunuchs Crow Berdache and Indian Hijra E Sexual Relations Sexual Permissive Cultures few or no restrictions on sexual experimentation before marriage Semi Permissive Cultures allow some experimentation but less open about it cultural reasons for restricting sex establishing paternity religion reduce the spread of STDs These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute F Fertility Control Indigenous Methods includes herbs superstition abstinence taboos existed long before modern science induced abortion probably a cultural universal infanticide widely documented not frequent or common practice in any society G Marriage culturally sanctioned union between two or more people that establishes certain rights and obligations sex labor property child rearing etc an institution that transforms the status of participants symbolically marked
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