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Patrilateral Bias Among A Traditionally Egalitarian People: Ju/'Hoansi Naming Practice, Patricia Draper, Christine Haney

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

The Ju/'hoansi (!Kung) of Namibia and Botswana are unusual for the strong norm to name children exclusively for kin and primarily for grandparents. Naming carries important significance by linking the two namesakes and because names are a basis for extending fictive kin links. In the 1950s Lorna Marshall reported that the father has the right to name children and that he "invariably" named them for the paternal grandparents, although having the option of naming children born later for his wife's parents. The authors used a large database of genealogical information that was collected nearly concurrently with Marshall's report to test …

Mainely Girls Vol. 1, No. 16 (Spring 2005), Mainely Girls Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

Engendered Spaces: An Analysis Of The Formation And Perpetuation Of Female Spheres In Ghana, Emily Starr Bean

African Diaspora ISPs

The following paper seeks to address the complex structures that women have created to facilitate their multiple roles in society. I argue that although there is great community in these female-dominated spheres they have formed to orchestrate their duties, the pattern of gender-division is both a product and a perpetuation of the marginalization of their space in the greater society. I open my paper with an anecdotal analysis of the micro-community of a woman's world that the market provides, detailing the complex social, political, and economic structures within that realm. I continue to commend the complexity of this community but …

Maine Now Times (Spring 2005), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

Shifting Identity: Process And Change In Identity Of Aging Mexican-American Males, Gary L. Villereal, Alonzo Cavazos

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This article addresses the shift in machismo identity that occurs in Mexican-American male identity and the developmental process and the change in one's role as an elderly Mexican-American man.

Socialization of male-ism in Mexican-American boys begins with the cultural expectation that a young boy is and will be a man. There are also explicit expectations that girls should be respected but that, in contrast to boys, girls should be submissive and obedient. This is the beginning of machismo and the separation of being a "man" versus being a "woman."

Aging results in a loss of machismo and this is evident …

Mainely Girls Vol. 1, No. 15 (Winter 2005), Mainely Girls Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.