ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Perspectivism, Pineal Gland, Sperm Donation
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Idea of bio kinship: focusing on genetic material. Cultural kinship: ex. amazon best person you should marry is a cross-cousin, differs b/w sct, genetically speaking no diff, but yet big deal in some sct, doesn"t directly map on to biological kinship. Ex sperm donation: focussing on the genes of the donors. Blended families: keep biology pure but mixing the social. Donor egg in vitro fertilization: things that are usually kept together, are separated. Genes from some place (eggs and sperm) Blood and genes aren"t together anymore: anthological distinction is break done, other things of doing kinship. Nature itself changes idea of nature changes. Nature and nurture get confused and complicated here. Become diff people reconfiguration of kinship and nature technology changes the nature of reality. Second mothering: cultural thing, but take second meaning in bio, multiple mothers here. All new categories: biology, nature, legally factors, who own the embryos, new cultures.
