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# Feminist anthropology and kinship, II #

## Feminist anthropology and kinship, II ##

Ryan Schram

ANTH 2654: Forms of Families

17 September 2015

Available at http://anthro.rschram.org/2654/8

## Lecture outline ##

* Review from last week: Ortner on patriarchy, criticism of Ortner
* Three examples of gender inequality: Are they the same?
  - Woman/Man: A marked-unmarked opposition.
  - In these societies, are women oppressed in a way that is fundamentally similar?
  - Do women of these societies have common interests, that is, should they all be working toward challenging male domination?

* Marilyn Strathern: A more ambitious critique of Ortner
  - Mount Hagen, PNG: Home of Ongka, and a truck.
  - Women are rubbish and selfish, men are successful leaders
  - Autonomy and cooperation have to be balanced
  - Hagen [[:personhood|personhood]]: The gender dichotomy is a metaphor for the human mind.
* The witchcraft meeting in Auhelawa
  - Women have a "tongue of fire"
  - Women are "the boss of this place"
  - Accusations, and a collective admission of responsibility
  - The witch is a deviant woman and a matrilineal woman
* Forms of power
  - Coercion
  - Authority
  - Persuasion
  - "The exemplary center"