TOPICS: SENSORY ETHNOGRAPHY: FOOD AND THE SENSES in Spring 2024 (CM3091A)

This course examines gender roles and relations from an anthropological perspective. While all human societies make distinctions based on gender, the content of these distinctions varies from one social group to another. Anthropology has greatly contributed, since the 1930s, to developing contemporary understanding of gender as a social construction, which orients people’s beliefs and practices. The anthropology of gender focuses on how culture shapes individual and collective understandings of gender difference, and the ways in which gender difference structures cultural beliefs and forms of social organization around the world.