Define These Cultural Anthropology of Gender Flashcards

Universal differences in size and strength between males and females

Types of work typically preformed by males or females

An explanation for the gender division of labor that suggests that men's work typically involves tasks requiring greater strength and greater aerobic capacity

An explanation for the gender division of labor that suggests that women's work will typically involve tasks that do not take women far from home for long periods, do not place children in potential danger if they are taken along, or can be stopped and resumed if an infant needs care

An explanation for the gender division of labor that suggests that it may be advantageous for a gender to do tasks that follow in a production sequence or that are located near each other

An explanation for the gender division of labor that suggests that men will tend to do the dangerous work in a society because the loss of men is less disadvantageous reproductively than the loss of women

Food-getting activities

Those that involve the preparation and processing of food

Prohibition of sexual intercourse or marriage between a mother and son, father and daughter, and brother and sister

All human societies have recognized that interbreeding of close relatives can express harmful recessives in the offspring and have therefore banned such matings

Culturally defined blood relationship

Culturally defined relationship by marriage

A group of people who claim descent from a common ancestor

Affiliates an individual with kin of both sexes related to him or her through females ancestors only

At marriage, the couple moves to live with or near the wife's parents