Complementarity and conflict: An Andean vision of man and woman

The analysis of binary conceptual systems includes "man and woman" as paradigms of opposite categories. In many cultures, the use of the categories "woman and man", to facilitate thinking, seems to be part of an ordering system in which women are placed on the less valued and inf...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Harris, Olivia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:1985
País:Perú
Institución:Universidad Católica San Pablo
Repositorio:Revistas - Universidad Católica San Pablo
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.ucsp.edu.pe:article/1031
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucsp.edu.pe/index.php/Allpanchis/article/view/1031
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:visión andina
roles de género
conflictividad
complementariedad
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Sumario:The analysis of binary conceptual systems includes "man and woman" as paradigms of opposite categories. In many cultures, the use of the categories "woman and man", to facilitate thinking, seems to be part of an ordering system in which women are placed on the less valued and inferred side of the opposition. Thus, some authors have suggested that women are to men, what nature is to culture. Others have drawn attention to the way in which the left or right hand is used to express gender differences, in the words of Evans Pritchard, "a slight organic asymmetry becomes a symbol of an absolute moral polarity" (1973).