Margaret Mead New Guinea Gender Roles – Flashcards
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Where are the three tribes from
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New Guinea
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Where did Margaret mead study
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In new guinea she studied tribes
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Margaret Mead studied what tribes
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Arapesh, Mundugomor, Tchambuli
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What did Margaret mead find out about those three tribes
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That gender roles varied
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T or F? Sex is biological and gender roles is cultural
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True
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What does courting mean
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Dating
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The Mundugomor have kinship form based on gender aka ropes
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True, ropes means when dad is related to daughter , mother related to son , it switches
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What did mead argue in 1930 about Arapesh society
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That Americans would think Arapesh men behave feminine
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Arapesh society
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Both women and men grow food & care for children. Being aggressive is discouraged and being passive aka feminine is encouraged
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In what society do men experience pregnancy
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Arapesh, male pregnancy is called Couvade. The men start feeling same symptoms as pregnant women but the men are NOT pregnant
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In Arapesh society what do they think about sex
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Arapesh Sex is embarrassing
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Mundugomor society
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They have a rope kinship where children are only related to the opposite sex
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Mundugomor men & women are encouraged to what
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Flirt, show sexual interest and have sex
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How do Mundugomors act
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Aggressive and independent
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T or F? Americans think Mundugomors are masculine
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True
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What does Mead argue
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Culture plays in powerful role in gender behavior biology is not the only factor
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Tchambuli society
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Women are economic providers and do all the fishing =money
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Where do Tchambuli live
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Next to lake chambuli that's where women take canoes and fish
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Tchambuli marriage is asked by who?
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The women are the ones who propose & the only ones who can ask a boy to dance
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What happens if Tchambuli girls don't ask a guy to dance
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The guy says he's going to suicide in lake
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What do Tchambuli men do
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They spend hours in bachelor hut getting ready for the dances
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T or F? Americans think that Tchambuli have reversed gender role it's a parallel universe
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True
