Anthropology of Women

Question 1

US Anthology 1970

Answer 1

A declining proportion of women in the top departments and a total lack of women in half the 22 departments surveyed.

Question 2

Mistreatment

Answer 2

Women mistreated, facing rape and sexual assault in the field.

Question 3

Franz Boas

Answer 3

Founding father of american anthropology. Trained as geologist. Professor at Columbia . Opponent of Social Evolutionism and scientific racism. Focus on data collection, culture influences personalities.

Question 4

Parsons

Answer 4

Sociologist, Feminist and believed in traditional values. Shifted to anthropology after meaning Boas. She believed that women could get closer to other women and she used her research as a way to criticise the position of women in civilised society. Concerned with how custom constraints individual expression.

Question 5

Landes

Answer 5

Cultural anthropologist. Fieldwork in Brazil. Focus on race and gender, attempts to diminish othering by proving multiple voices, writing about ones subjective position in the field.