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ANTH 220 Week 8 Gender Norms and Culture

GENDER NORMS AND CULTURE

  • Videos, articles, and PowerPoints are in Week 8 Module.
  • Some answers will be short (use full sentences) and others will be a paragraph.
  • For all answers, you must use evidence from the videos and articles and use in-text citations.
  • Watch the entire video, taking notes throughout each video. The answer to a question is often found throughout the video and discussed at various points in the video.
  • Discuss in your own words – do not submit only quotations from the videos.
  • Include time stamps in videos.

RITES OF PASSAGE

Read the Coming of Age Rituals and Gender PowerPoint and the Gender Rituals document and watch the male and female rites of passage videos.

For EACH of the 4 videos listed in the Week 8 Module:

  1. Identify the activities and behaviors of the 3 stages of a rite of passage: separation, liminality, and incorporation, using specific examples.
  2. What is the purpose of the ritual in the culture?
  3. How do these rituals serve to reaffirm gender roles or ideologies?

Must use specific examples from all of the required videos and engage with the PowerPoint/Gender Rituals.

SWORN VIRGINS AND BASHA POSH

After reading the 2 short articles and watching the 2 very short videos about Albania’s Sworn Virgins and Afghanistan’s Bacha Posh, you can see the intersection of kinship and gender.

  1. What are the functions of both these traditions in the culture’s kinship system or structure of ideology of family and gender roles?
  1. How do the traditions uphold it and reflect gendered power relations, gender roles, and gender identities?

Must use specific examples from all of the required articles and videos.

WITCHCRAFT

After reading the Witchcraft PowerPoint and the short articles and videos,

  1. Critically discuss social factors and events that contribute to the belief in witches.
  2. Examine commonalties and why witch persecution has existed through time and globally.
  3. What does it say about gender norms, roles, or ideologies?

Must  use specific examples from the articles, videos, and PowerPoint below to support your analysis, using in-text citations.

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