Gender Ethnographic Examples

Question 1

Wikan’s research among Xanith

Answer 1

Describes a traditional institution of transsecualism in Oman. By transgressing taboos about proper male and female behaviour. Xanith define the boundaries of traditional gender roles.

Question 2

Xanith

Answer 2

They demonstrate that gender identity is a fluid category, defined by social practice.

Question 3

In Oman

Answer 3

Gender roles are partly defined by one’s respective activity and passivity during the act of sex. The activity of men is a broader characteristic of male social roles.

Question 4

In Oman

Answer 4

Transexuals- defined as the social acknowledgment role pattern whereby a person acts and is classified as a person being the opposite gender to what he/she was born as biologically. Of 3000 males 60 are xanith.