Option 2: BEYOND THE GENDER BINARY
Answer the following question by using some references to Chapter 7: Families, Kinship, and Marriage but mostly use Chapter 8: Gender by Kottak as well as the following articles: The Berdache Tradition by W. Williams and Hijras: An Alternative Gender in India by S. Nanda both located in Annual Editions: Anthropology, 41st Edition.
What is a Native American berdache? What is a hijras from India? What special social and religious roles to they each play in their cultures? Discuss the ways in which they both challenge the binary sex/gender notions of the West? How might knowledge of cross-cultural indigenous transgender roles (or alternative sex/gender systems throughout the world) empower the contemporary American “transgender movement?” Finally, what kinds of positive changes did the “transgender movement” in the United States bring about?
Answer the following question by using some references to Chapter 7: Families, Kinship, and Marriage but mostly use Chapter 8: Gender by Kottak as well as the following articles: The Berdache Tradition by W. Williams and Hijras: An Alternative Gender in India by S. Nanda both located in Annual Editions: Anthropology, 41st Edition.
What is a Native American berdache? What is a hijras from India? What special social and religious roles to they each play in their cultures? Discuss the ways in which they both challenge the binary sex/gender notions of the West? How might knowledge of cross-cultural indigenous transgender roles (or alternative sex/gender systems throughout the world) empower the contemporary American “transgender movement?” Finally, what kinds of positive changes did the “transgender movement” in the United States bring about?
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