AND WE WERE BORN...!: An attempt of anthropological analysis of the sexuality
- Autores: Charles Susanne
- Localización: Antropo, ISSN-e 1578-2603, Vol. 13, 2006, págs. 1-17
- Idioma: inglés
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- ET NOUS SOMMES NES... !: Tentative d�analyse anthropologique de la sexualité
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Resumen
The history of the human group cannot be summarised by a list of periods and species. It is a history of individuals who reproduce, eat, struggle against predators and teach their children. Fossils were not "fossil".
The sexuality is an important centre of this human life, an invisible guide of many of our actions, the victory of life on death, the "immortality" of the transmission of our genes.
As anthropologists, we must understand our sexuality and explain its social importance, in terms of marriage, sexual relationships, conception, birth, puberty, parenthood, ... What are the biological foundations? And how these foundations can be influenced by culture? In sexual terms, we have moreover to distinguish between sex and gender. Sex corresponds to biological differences between men and women, as the visible differences of the external genital organs. Gender is the masculine ¿ feminine classification in cultural, psychological and social terms, which is a surimposition to the biological differences.
