The anthropological perspective used to study the local cultural frame (i.e., emic vision) focused on the processes that society enacted on the bodies of individuals; this led to the acknowledgement that it is not only adulthood but also gender roles/norms that are socially instituted [28,29,...
A recognized example of the standard representation of blacks in European art is provided by Jean-Marc Nattier's 1733 Mademoiselle de Clermont at Her Bath Attended by Slaves (figs. 2 and 3).15 There, black women are shown in their expected roles as servants and exoticized complements to the...
Although not as rich and bewildering as the repertoire of works from the Arab, Persian, and Turkish world of the past, the manuscripts produced before the coming of Western colonialism in the Malay world were also devoted to an assiduous and unrestrained attention to the subject of desire, erot...
Sex roles were differentprior to the industrial revolution, when men and women worked alongside one another on farms, doing similar tasks. Entrenched gender inequality isa product of modernity. It’s not that inequality did not exist before, it’s that inequality within the home in relation to ...
While the upright stance of the Homo sapiensskeleton implied an evolutionary hierarchy, the gorilla exhibit connoted commonality between human and nonhuman animals’ gender roles. As per the museum’s bird and mammal displays, the mounted gorillas – a female and two infants – were displayed in ...
“gender roles” (Carrigan et al.,1985; Pickles,2021). Children in turn pass on this set of norms to the next generation, making gender roles increasingly stable. Gender roles narrowly view “deviations from expectations” as “failure”, which does not reflect real-life situations (Carrigan ...
I want to feel “ibasho” in my office in the future. The time that I spend in jobs may be the longest in my life. It is about three times as long as school days. Of course, my home is my most important “ibasho“. But, work place is different from home in terms of roles. ...
Clyde Mitchell(1956) studies kalela dance, a form of dance that became popular in the in-dustrial areas of Central Africa’s Copperbelt after 1950. The kalela dance wasmostly practiced by men, and was comprised of a fixed set of roles and cos-tumes the performers wore. The dance was ...
This essay links the feminization of writing labor in England with the gendering of colonial sphere and the subsequent re-fashioning of gender roles in the national domestic sphere. <5> Mr. Meeson's Will tells the story of Augusta Smithers, an impoverished author of ...
In terms of linguistic acculturation, Moroccans used to give value to their mother tongue, Tamazight and to Moroccan dialect before colonialism. In contrast, they instilled the idea that the western languages are more valuable and prestigious than the local ones as France and Spain entered the ...