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1
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what does this focus on?

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cross-cultural analyses of women and gender issues

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what did it attack?

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the naive representations of native people as homogenous

3
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what did it examine?

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examination of social construction of gender

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materialist perspectives

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  • Marx, Steward, Harris
  • interest in how gender related activities could be analyzed using measures of social, economic, and political power
  • alaysis of historical changes (especially colonialism and economic and political impact of the west) [’
5
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gender identities

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not “natural”

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major anthropologists at the time

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Eleanor Burke Leacock

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Eleanor Burke Leacock

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1922-1987

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leading Marxist feminist anthropology

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wide-ranging fieldwork

cultural materialist

9
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differentiates between sex and gender

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gender differences due to economics
egalitarian in indigenous societies
changed by contact with Western world through colonialism

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3 stages of gender differentiation

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  1. kin-based societies (communal)
  2. class system evolves and development of capitalism breaks population into those who control resources or labor and those who do not
    - women deprived of control over their labor even though domestic labor is essential to the reproduction of the workforce