Webinar: Sex and Gender in the Ethnographic Encounter in the Highlands of the American Colonial Philippines

Date and Time: Feb 2, 2023 | 12:30 pm – 1:30pm Eastern Time

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Organizer: Cornell University

This talk examines three foundational ideas in the history and anthropology of sex and gender in Southeast Asia in the context of the colonial Philippines: the “high” status of women; the image of the man of prowess; and the concept and practice of gender pluralism. Drawing from episodes of the ethnographic encounter between the earliest generation of American anthropological field-workers during the first decade of the twentieth century and their Indigenous interlocutors, the talk aims to rethink the assumptions behind the axioms of the study of gender and sexuality in the region, as well as tracing their roots in the history of anthropology.