Gender and Culture (ANTH 277) University of North Carolina

Gender and Culture (ANTH 277)

Because all human populations across the world have some things in common and some things that differ, the focus of this course will be to make analytical distinctions among gender ideologies across global societies. By evaluating the "other," the class will address how human behaviors, including traditions and customs associated with gender, are transmitted through cultural learning. Writing assignments and exams will critically examine the ethnocentrism of gender, the attitude that the arbitrary conventions of how one's own culture defines gender roles are “correct” or “natural,” and that all other cultural patterns are immoral or unnatural.