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Andro Centric Anthropological Perspectives
2,784 wordsIn this essay I will look at whether the inequality between men and women is a human universal, or whether there are or have been societies in which women shared power equally with men, or even exercised power over them. In order to do so, I will look at the writings of a number of anthropologists. In "The Subordinance of Women: A Problematic Universal", author Ruth Bleier indicates that a central premise in the biological explanations inequality between women and men in present-day cultures, is...
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Andro Centric Anthropological Perspectives
2,768 words... Marjorie Wolf; and "Male Dominance: Men or Reality?" , by Duley and Edwards. In "The Subordinance of Women: A Problematic Universal", author Ruth Bleier indicates that a central premise in the biological explanations inequality between women and men in present-day cultures, is that the subordinate position of women is a universal - across all time and all cultures. She tells us that these assumptions and conclusions have always invited the biological explanations that woman is subordinate be...
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19 Th Century Point Of View
1,422 wordsFetishism A fetish is a thing or an object, which, according to the beliefs or psychological attitude of a person, has a supernatural influence, power or abilities, or from the other point of view, a thing which has supremacy over people. Fetishism is the condition of belonging to such mental or conscious dependency. In other words, a fetish is an entity, which attracts unusual, anomalous attention of a person, and drastically dominates in the perception of the situation. Correspondently, fetish...
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Andro Centric Anthropological Perspectives
5,540 wordsIn this essay I will look at whether the inequality between men and women is a human universal, or whether there are or have been societies in which women shared power equally with men, or even exercised power over them. In order to do so, I will look at the writings of a number of anthropologists. In The Subordinance of Women: A Problematic Universal, author Ruth Bleier indicates that a central premise in the biological explanations inequality between women and men in present-day cultures, is t...
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Hybridity Montage Fluidity Colonial Anglo Whites Ect Postmodernism
2,638 wordsWith the end of colonialism and the emergence of a seemingly new world order, there raised a demand that research be useful and relevant, indicating that knowledge for its own sake was insufficient. As a result of this, what emerged was a new focus on development and modernization in the form of postmodernism. In these changing times, anthropology has come into contact with a variety of evolving concepts, including hybridity, montage, fluidity, and deconstruction. The question remains, how these...
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