Anthropology › Section L · Gender and sexuality › Topic L.1
Sex, gender, and sexuality in anthropology
Is it a boy or a girl? The question seems simple, but anthropologists find that bodies, roles and desires are organised in strikingly different ways across cultures. Evidence from primates, human biology and archaeology shows how much of what people call natural is shaped by culture.
In this topic
- Three related terms
- Is sex simply natural?
- Sexuality across cultures
- Primatology and its biases
- Chimpanzees and bonobos
- Sexual dimorphism
- Worked example: testing a claim about nature
- Measuring human differences
- Worked example: reading a meta-analysis
- Archaeology and the origins of gender
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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