Overview
• Assignment 10 due Friday
• Steadman EC due Friday
• NO CLASS NEXT WEEK
• Socialization, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
Learning Culture: Socialization
Psychological Anthropology:
Studying Socialization
Sigmund Freud
More recent Approaches…
• Nancy Scheper-Hughes
• West Ireland
• 20% men in mental inst.
• 89% celibate, ½ schizophrenic
Action in Scene
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Standing Figure
Partner
1%
Person They/them
3%
3%
Boy
2%
Doctor
4%
Guy
2%
He
9%
Husband
9%
Individual
1%
Lover
1%
Man
65%
Figure in Bed
Beloved
1%
Body Girl Her
1% 3% 3%
Lover
6%
Partner
1%
She
4%
Woman
38%
Person
3%
Significant
other
5%
Wife
31%
Them/they
3%
Victim
1%
Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics
• Youngest brothers stay home – do not marry
• House is women’s domain
• Catholicism prohibits sex
• Neurosis develops due to
inner urges and social norms
Sex, Gender, and Sexuality:
What’s the Difference?
Biological Sex (Western Normative)
Gender (Western Normative)
Sexuality (Western Normative)
Western Concepts of Sex, Gender,
and Sexuality: Links and Binary
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XY
Biological Sex: Chromosomal,
Genital, Hormonal Variation (Intersex)
Multiple Gender Systems
(Transgender and
Non-binary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIIJ990jUfU
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/1248069063442/excerpt-from-dan-ratherreports.html
Sexuality:
Channeling Desire
Freud
Sex, Gender, and Sexuality:
Synthesis
• No “natural” binary – it is a spectrum
• No universal link between sex, gender, and
sexuality
• Determined by combination of biological
and cultural conditions