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11-26-2014, 02:55 PM | #1 | ||
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You're so pretty the way you are (maybe belongs in science/anthropology
Masculine, feminine faces valued more in industrial world
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11-26-2014, 03:37 PM | #2 | |
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The culture of the Aka is a fascinating one. In particular the way labour is organised around gender. In some ways, they're quite similar to traditional conceptions of gender - so, women do the bulk of the caring/home making and positions of leadership are exclusively male. But in many ways they are much less gendered in their approach than we might have expected. Most task types, whether hunting or caring for children are done by both men and women. They are virtually interchangeable. So, though women do more of the childcare, men are happy to drop onto that job as and when needed and it is not uncommon with young babies for the men to let them suckle at their nipples whilst they are tending them. Similarly, women often hunt - both large and small game - and though men tend to hunt more than women, women are considered to be particularly adept at hunting. The noton of childcare as exclusively woman's work would seem ridiculous to the Aka, just as the idea of hunting as exclusively male work would seem bizarre.
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11-26-2014, 03:42 PM | #3 | ||
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Here's a really interesting article about gender roles amongst the Aka:
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http://www.theguardian.com/society/2...drelationships I find the Aka really interesting. Particularly in the light of so much of the popular evo-psych findings which all take as their foundation the notion that amongst early humans, men hunted and women gathered/tended. There is pretty much no evidence whatsoever for the gender division of labour amongst early humans - we know nothing about how they organised labour or conceived of gender. Most of what we asume about them is based on a combination of our current assumptions of gender, and observations of recent and modern hunter gatherer societies. We've essentially been taking information of today and working back to a conclusion about yesterday. In reality a truly sharp division of labour along gendered lines makes very little sense for early humans - role interchangeability and cooperation makes more sense.
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11-26-2014, 04:19 PM | #4 |
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I wonder who classified the jobs as being "top"? If the Aka are as egalitarian as is said then perhaps they don't see the hierarchy the way we do.
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12-04-2014, 10:50 PM | #5 |
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Another one of those crazy third world cultures. We'll have camps to re-educate them when we get them up to speed.
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12-05-2014, 03:47 AM | #6 | ||
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I think it just means that men are the ones doing the leadership and managerial stuff for the tribe. But maybe they don't see that as 'top' maybe they just view it as a function to which men are particularly suited.
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12-05-2014, 02:46 PM | #7 | |
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The title of this thread reminds me of a 'Seinfeld' episode.
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