Is there an association between attitudes towards social welfare and gender?
Studies suggest that there are differences in attitudes towards social welfare between men and women. Women seem to rely more on support...
Reflections on Lori Leonard's "Adopting female "circumcision" in Southern Chad"
This article does not mean to endorse the practice of FGM but rather works to examine different understandings of the practice. Some...
Reflections on Sherry Ortner's "Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?"
Collecting evidence of female subordination According to Ortner, women are, to some extent, always considered inferior and subordinated...
"The Bow and the Strap: a new look at institutionalised homosexuality in Native North America"
Similarities and Differences in institutionalised homosexuality in New Guinea and Native North America In New Guinea, the custom of...
Reflections on "Symbols and Sexuality: Culture and Identity on the Early Witwatersrand Gold Mines"
The gendered nature of homosexuality amongst the miners Due to the scarcity of women in the Witwatersrand Gold Mines, the value of sex...
Reflections on Keith Vaz's claim of FGM as not cultural but criminal and not tribal but torturous...
This article does not aim to say that FGM is a practice that should be perpetuated, but rather aims to reflect on the power relations...
Reflections on Nancy Scheper-Hughes's "Two Feet Under and a Cardboard Coffin"- Death without Weeping
The social construction/invention of child mortality as a significant social medical issue of "fairly recent vintage" In Western...
Reflections on Bloch's "Death, women and power" in Death and the Regeneration of Life (1982).
What does "endogamy" mean ? The term endogamy refers to a societal custom in which individuals only marry in the limits of their local...