Feminism & Anthropology

Question 1

Evolutionism - Lewis Henry Morgan

Answer 1

“People evolved from promiscuity to more structured relationship to sexuality” - monogamy as advanced

Question 2

Key Figures in (American) anthropology

Answer 2

Ruth Benedict
Zora Neale Hurston
Margaret Mead

Question 3

Coming of Age in Samoa (1928)

Answer 3

Margaret Mead; universal condition of adolescence (argues sexuality is free and adolescence is more of a transition period)

Question 4

Use and Abuse of Anthropology

Answer 4

Rosaldo; supposes biology is a pregiven and automatic definition for gender and womanhood and should be looked at culturally - also look at how the language impacts the data retrieved on the woman’s question