Student Resources

Video Links Chapter 5 

Theory Part 2—Culture and Personality

5:11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RGGBIJzhKs

Second part of a lecture on anthropological theory, focusing on culture and personality as well as functionalism.

Dr. David Matsumoto Discusses Culture and Personality

7:13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-_ke3zyO8Q

“Dr. David Matsumoto discusses the correlation between culture and personality.“

Gender, Sexuality, Society: Three Self-Ethnographies

6:46

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okkX7EhV1qA

“Three University of Texas at Austin undergraduate students cross-dress for an anthropology class (‘Anthropology of Body and Technology’) video essay assignment. (4 May 2007) ‘When changing your body, what is considered normal and what constitutes marginalization in a society? How are natural facts experienced differently according to gender? How much does an outer appearance reflect an inner self?'"

Chapter 12: The Story of a !Kung Woman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nygexkKha0&feature=related

6:55

The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality—a film clip from “N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman” by John Marshall and Adrienne Miesner

The Women’s Kingdom

3:49

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5O0x2ohKYg

A trailer for a film produced by Women Make Movies: “Keepers of one of the last matriarchal societies in the world, Mosuo women in a remote area of southwest China live beyond the strictures of mainstream Chinese culture enjoying great freedoms and carrying heavy responsibilities.”

Blood Initiation

4:35

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hQEJIaciRM

A segment of a National Geographic film depicting a male initiation ritual in which boys (and later adult men) are made to bleed in order to purge them of the “female” influences of birth, breastfeeding, and physical contact with women.

Transgender Basics: Gender Identity Project

19:27

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXI9w0PbBXY

“‘Transgender Basics’ is a 20 minute educational film on the concepts of gender and transgender people. Two providers from the Center's Gender Identity Project (GIP) discuss basic concepts of gender, sexual orientation, identity and gender roles. Three transgender community members share their personal experiences of being trans and genderqueer.”