Anthropology

Assignment 5 – Due April 18

Every society that anthropologists have studied has had some kind of division of labor by gender and by age. Choose a society/culture that is well known to you (it can be the U.S., or it can be somewhere else if you have traveled a lot or if you're an immigrant) and consider its traditional division of labor. What kinds of work/tasks are/were considered the norm for males? For females? What kind of work is considered appropriate for children to do? Is there an age at which people cease working? Or at which the work they are expected to do changes? Describes what has been the norm, and then consider whether and how those norms have changed. That is, in what way, of any, has that culture been dynamic with regard to gender and/or age roles?

** Be sure your name is on the assignment itself, not just the email to which you attach it.**

Your total should be 750-800 words (2-3 pages double-spaced). Remember, this is replacing part of an exam grade, so it should be given adequate time and attention, not hurriedly dashed off five minutes before the deadline. :-)