Peggy Reeves Sanday
Biographic Data
| ID | 90436 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peggy Reeves Sanday |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peggy Reeves |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanday |
| SIGNATURE | SANDAY P R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 431 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus
Go to Author’s Homepage. A classic. Fraternity Gang Rape is a fascinating analysis of how all male groups such as fraternities or athletics teams may create a rape culture where behavior occurs that few individuals acting alone would perpetrate. The new introduction and afterword shed light on how this pernicious problem continues today, insightfully illuminating the complicity of society in the failure of accountability for acquaintance rape. Ma…
Female Power and Male Dominance: On the Origins of Sexual Inequality
The Socio- Cultural Context of Rape: A Cross- Cultural Study
Matriarchy
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the definition of matriarchy referred to the status and role of women in early human history as “rule by the mothers” and “female dominance.” In the nineteenth century this concept of matriarchy was cast either in terms of presumed stages in the evolution of society from “primitive” female to more advanced male rule or matriarchy was conflated with matrilineal descent. In the twentieth century some anthro…
Rape and Sexual Coercion
Un modelo para la etnografía de interés público: La Conjunción De Teoría, Práctica, Acción Y Cambio en Un Mundo Globalizado
This paper outlines a model for and the history of Public Interest Ethnography (PIE). The aim is to codify the means by which theory, practice, and action for change in a globalizing world can and has been knitted together by ethnographers adopting a micro ethnographic approach wedded to macro considerations. The term “public interest” refers both to broader interests related to the “common good” (the macro level) and to specific interests aired …
Going Home: An Anthropological Memoir
Packing and Unpacking Gender
Kandimalal: An Aboriginal Heritage Site
National Association of Student Anthropologists: Resolving Conflicts in Heritage Tourism: A Public Interest Approach
Friends' Gallery Exhibit" and Harold Green for his "Food Aid Management Constituency Study."The Presidential Perspectives session presentations stimulated active discussion and a broad range
Women at the Center: Life in a Modern Matriarchy
Commentary: Matriarchy and Islam Post‐9/11: A Report from Indonesia
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology: Holistic Approach to Public Issues
Public Interest Anthropology
A Woman Scorned: Acquaintance Rape on Trial
This study of American sexual culture and the politics of acquaintance rape identifies the sexual stereotypes that continue to obstruct justice and diminish women. Beginning with an account of the St. John's rape case, the author refers to other British and American landmark rape cases to explain how, with the exception of earliest Colonial times, rape has been a crime notable for placing the woman on trial
Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas
Rape-Prone Versus Rape-Free Campus Cultures
Using the concepts of rape-free and rape-prone societies, I suggest that the next step for rape research is to investigate rape-free campus environments. Based on the articles in this volume and ethnographic research, I summarize what is known about rape-prone campus cultures and compare this information with rape-free fraternity cultures. The question of variation is also examined by comparing the rape incidence and prevalence rates averaged by …
Trapped in a metaphor
I have no trouble accepting the major conclusions of James Q. Wilson there are aspects of our moral life are universal(1) and these aspects can be called fundamental dispositions[226], which we might label sympathy, fairness, self-control, and duty. I take this proposition to be a self-evident product of the fact humans are bound together mutual interdependence [xii] in collectivities we call societies. Without acts demonstrating thoughtfulness, …
Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era
Contributors: Margaret Conkey, Susan Gal, Jane Guyer, Micaela di Leonardo, Nadine Peacock, Elizabeth Povinelli, Rayna Rapp, Harold Scheffler, Irene Silverblatt, Susan Sperling, Ann Stoler, Kay Warren, Patricia Zavella
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Dealing with Inequality: Analysing Gender Relations in Melanesia and Beyond . Marilyn Strathern , ed
Response to Abler
Toward Thick Comparison and a Theory of Self-Awareness
Change and Continuity in Minangkabau: Local, Regional, and Historical Perspectives on West Sumatra . Lynn L. Thomas and Franz von Benda‐Beckmann , eds
Divine Hunger: Cannibalism as a Cultural System
The practice of cannibalism is in certain cultures rejected as evil, while in others it plays a central part in the ritual order. Anthropologists have offered various explanations for the existence of cannibalism, none of which, Peggy Sanday claims, is adequate. In this book she presents a new approach to understanding the phenomenon. Through a detailed examination of ritual cannibalism in selected tribal societies, and a comparison of those case…
Sexual Stratification
The Socio-Cultural Context of Rape: A Cross-Cultural Study
This research departs from the familiar assumption that rape is an inherent tendency of male nature, and begins with the assumption that human sexual behavior, though based in a biological need, is an expression of cultural forces. The incidence, meaning, and function of rape in a cross-cultural sample of tribal societies are presented. Two general hypotheses guide the research: first, the incidence of rape varies cross-culturally; second, a high…
Female Power and Male Dominance: On the Origins of Sexual Inequality
Toward a Theory of the Status of Women1
A theory of the status of women is presented which draws primarily on ecological and economic factors and posits a relationship between female production and female status. It was hypothesized that female contribution to subsistence activities would be a function of certain ecological factors and/or a prolonged drain of male labor. It was found that these factors were related to female production activities. A scale of female status was then deri…
Divine Hunger: Cannibalism as a Cultural System
The practice of cannibalism is in certain cultures rejected as evil, while in others it plays a central part in the ritual order. Anthropologists have offered various explanations for the existence of cannibalism, none of which, Peggy Sanday claims, is adequate. In this book she presents a new approach to understanding the phenomenon. Through a detailed examination of ritual cannibalism in selected tribal societies, and a comparison of those case…
Rape-Prone Versus Rape-Free Campus Cultures
Using the concepts of rape-free and rape-prone societies, I suggest that the next step for rape research is to investigate rape-free campus environments. Based on the articles in this volume and ethnographic research, I summarize what is known about rape-prone campus cultures and compare this information with rape-free fraternity cultures. The question of variation is also examined by comparing the rape incidence and prevalence rates averaged by …
The "Psychological Reality" of American-English Kinship Terms: An Information-Processing Approach1
This research applies the information-processing theory of human thinking to an analysis of the psychological reality of American-English kinship terms. A general model in terms of cognitive structure and process is presented, its theoretical development closely tied to experimental testing. Two tasks involving the manipulation of terms of reference were administered to a sample chosen on the basis of subcultural affiliation; from the resulting d…
Subcultural Variations in an Urban Poor Population
The assumption that the poor constitute a subsociety with a homogeneous subculture is examined empirically in an urban poverty sample. The existence of subcultural differences in the sample was tested by using a number of criteria that have been suggested for classifying cultural systems. The data indicate that for the sample studied there are two subcultures–one Black and one White. A hypothesis for the development and persistence of subcultural…
Margaret Mead's View of Sex Roles in Her Own and Other Societies
Female Power and Male Dominance on the Origins of Sexual Inequality
Analysis of the Psychological Reality of American-English Kin Terms in an Urban Poverty Environment1
The purpose of this paper is (1) to describe and explain variation in the psychological reality of American-English kinship terms; and, (2) to examine the relationship between results obtained by two approaches which have been used to find psychologically real definitions of American-English kinship terms. A general hypothesis is proposed which accounts for variation in psychological reality in terms of life cycle and certain social role variable…
On the Causes of IQ Differences between Groups and Implications for Social Policy
This paper presents an analysis, supported by recently published data, which suggests that IQ differences between groups may be explained by environmental factors. Jensen's hypothesis that such differences may be primarily genetic is critically examined and rejected on the basis of his misinterpretation of the meaning of the concept of heritability, the difficulties with the heritability formula, and several studies which indicate that when envir…
Un modelo para la etnografía de interés público: La Conjunción De Teoría, Práctica, Acción Y Cambio en Un Mundo Globalizado
This paper outlines a model for and the history of Public Interest Ethnography (PIE). The aim is to codify the means by which theory, practice, and action for change in a globalizing world can and has been knitted together by ethnographers adopting a micro ethnographic approach wedded to macro considerations. The term “public interest” refers both to broader interests related to the “common good” (the macro level) and to specific interests aired …
Commentary: Matriarchy and Islam Post‐9/11: A Report from Indonesia
A Woman Scorned: Acquaintance Rape on Trial
This study of American sexual culture and the politics of acquaintance rape identifies the sexual stereotypes that continue to obstruct justice and diminish women. Beginning with an account of the St. John's rape case, the author refers to other British and American landmark rape cases to explain how, with the exception of earliest Colonial times, rape has been a crime notable for placing the woman on trial
Myths of Male Dominance: Collected Articles on Women Cross-Culturally. Eleanor Burke Leacock
The Relevance of Anthropology to U. S. Social Policy 1
The "Psychological Reality" of American-English Kinship Terms: An Information-Processing Approach1
This research applies the information-processing theory of human thinking to an analysis of the psychological reality of American-English kinship terms. A general model in terms of cognitive structure and process is presented, its theoretical development closely tied to experimental testing. Two tasks involving the manipulation of terms of reference were administered to a sample chosen on the basis of subcultural affiliation; from the resulting d…
Subcultural Variations in an Urban Poor Population
The assumption that the poor constitute a subsociety with a homogeneous subculture is examined empirically in an urban poverty sample. The existence of subcultural differences in the sample was tested by using a number of criteria that have been suggested for classifying cultural systems. The data indicate that for the sample studied there are two subcultures–one Black and one White. A hypothesis for the development and persistence of subcultural…
Analysis of the Psychological Reality of American-English Kin Terms in an Urban Poverty Environment1
The purpose of this paper is (1) to describe and explain variation in the psychological reality of American-English kinship terms; and, (2) to examine the relationship between results obtained by two approaches which have been used to find psychologically real definitions of American-English kinship terms. A general hypothesis is proposed which accounts for variation in psychological reality in terms of life cycle and certain social role variable…
The Relevance of Anthropology to U.S. Social Policy
The Relevance of Anthropology to U. S. Social Policy 1
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On the Causes of IQ Differences between Groups and Implications for Social Policy
This paper presents an analysis, supported by recently published data, which suggests that IQ differences between groups may be explained by environmental factors. Jensen's hypothesis that such differences may be primarily genetic is critically examined and rejected on the basis of his misinterpretation of the meaning of the concept of heritability, the difficulties with the heritability formula, and several studies which indicate that when envir…
Toward a Theory of the Status of Women1
A theory of the status of women is presented which draws primarily on ecological and economic factors and posits a relationship between female production and female status. It was hypothesized that female contribution to subsistence activities would be a function of certain ecological factors and/or a prolonged drain of male labor. It was found that these factors were related to female production activities. A scale of female status was then deri…
General, Applied and Theoretical: Multidimensional Scaling: Theory and Applications in the Behavioral Sciences . Volume I: Theory. Roger N. SHEPARD, A. Kimball Romney, and Sara Beth Nerlove, eds
Anthropology and the Public Interest: Fieldwork and Theory
This book grew out of a conference held in the Fall of 1973 on the subject of the contribution of anthropology U.S. public policy. Its avowed purpose is to offer an intellectual perspective [on fieldwork and theory] that might be useful those students and professionals who wish expand their knowledge so that they can operate effectively outside of academe. collection of nineteen papers is divided into: Anthropologists' role; The U.S. public cultu…
The Ethnographic Paradigm(s)
This paper owes its inception to Fritz Mulhauser of the National Institute of Education who asked me to prepare a paper on the comparative uses of school ethnography as part of my activities as a member of NIE's Organization Research Study Group. Karl Weick, then chairman of this study group, encouraged me in this effort. Weick's metaphoric use of loose coupling to describe the structure of school bureaucracies reminded me of those days in anthro…
Margaret Mead's View of Sex Roles in Her Own and Other Societies
The Socio-Cultural Context of Rape: A Cross-Cultural Study
This research departs from the familiar assumption that rape is an inherent tendency of male nature, and begins with the assumption that human sexual behavior, though based in a biological need, is an expression of cultural forces. The incidence, meaning, and function of rape in a cross-cultural sample of tribal societies are presented. Two general hypotheses guide the research: first, the incidence of rape varies cross-culturally; second, a high…
Myths of Male Dominance: Collected Articles on Women Cross-Culturally. Eleanor Burke Leacock
Sexual Stratification
Female Power and Male Dominance on the Origins of Sexual Inequality
Change and Continuity in Minangkabau: Local, Regional, and Historical Perspectives on West Sumatra . Lynn L. Thomas and Franz von Benda‐Beckmann , eds
Divine Hunger: Cannibalism as a Cultural System
The practice of cannibalism is in certain cultures rejected as evil, while in others it plays a central part in the ritual order. Anthropologists have offered various explanations for the existence of cannibalism, none of which, Peggy Sanday claims, is adequate. In this book she presents a new approach to understanding the phenomenon. Through a detailed examination of ritual cannibalism in selected tribal societies, and a comparison of those case…
Response to Abler
Toward Thick Comparison and a Theory of Self-Awareness
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Dealing with Inequality: Analysing Gender Relations in Melanesia and Beyond . Marilyn Strathern , ed
Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era
Contributors: Margaret Conkey, Susan Gal, Jane Guyer, Micaela di Leonardo, Nadine Peacock, Elizabeth Povinelli, Rayna Rapp, Harold Scheffler, Irene Silverblatt, Susan Sperling, Ann Stoler, Kay Warren, Patricia Zavella
Trapped in a metaphor
I have no trouble accepting the major conclusions of James Q. Wilson there are aspects of our moral life are universal(1) and these aspects can be called fundamental dispositions[226], which we might label sympathy, fairness, self-control, and duty. I take this proposition to be a self-evident product of the fact humans are bound together mutual interdependence [xii] in collectivities we call societies. Without acts demonstrating thoughtfulness, …
Rape-Prone Versus Rape-Free Campus Cultures
Using the concepts of rape-free and rape-prone societies, I suggest that the next step for rape research is to investigate rape-free campus environments. Based on the articles in this volume and ethnographic research, I summarize what is known about rape-prone campus cultures and compare this information with rape-free fraternity cultures. The question of variation is also examined by comparing the rape incidence and prevalence rates averaged by …
Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas
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