ANTHRCUL 325 Study Guide - Final Guide: Stillbirth, Menopause, Fetus

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 325
• Professor: J. Henrike Florusbosch

Document Summary

In the scheme rural gambians describe, pregnancy terminations are instead events that damage the body and contribute to the cumulative aging effect: women express their capacity to reproduce in terms of muscles or sinews which they. In turkey women continue to bear children until a son is born: the son is the incarnation of the father and the one who can continue the patriline, women are the fuel consumed in the process. It would diminish both the honor and the livelihood of the group. In the trobriands, intercourse is not the source of pregnancy: the beloma can enter vaginally but more commonly through the head, children must be born to married women, and they belong. To her dala: the man"s role is to open the way for the spirit child as well as to shape and mold and nourish it, problematizing fertility: scientific accounts and chadian women"s narratives - lori leonard,