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Gender and Sociality in Amazonia

The culture of the Cashinahua was studied by Cecilia McCallum in an

attempt to understand the creation of gender and the effects of sociality in

their amazonian culture. She more specifically studied the physical and

symbolic creation of gender within the Cashinahua's culture. McCallum's

personal insight allows readers to have a more indepth look at the

Cashinahua culture which enables one to have a better understanding on

how it compares to the considerably modern western culture.This

information is essential to our class discussions because it gives a more

complete insight into a culture instead of the less explanative versions we

often tend to read in our daily class readings.

McCallum discussed in Gender and Sociality in Amazonia the

physical making of persons. She used the metaphor of cooking for the

birthing process. It is a good way of explaining how the Cashinahua

percieve the process of......

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