ANTH 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Central Australia, Mitochondrial Disease
4 Nov 2012
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Article that was posted on online discussion board. 2 mothers + 1 dad = 1 child. The question of ethics isn"t important at the moment. Schneider"s work said that americans said it was a question of bloodine. Kinship orders your genetic make up as you. One day the child will leave because to him the mother is nothing but his ex-womb/bearer. Principle of kinship = dichotomy of nature and culture. Nature: independent of humans, not a product of humans, beyond human volition. Culture: a human invention, the space that sets human apart from animals, anything that doesn"t happen by nature. Aristotle: things are made by humans/men, but the idea of that invention is already present in nature. The concept of nature does not need the concept of culture to make sense. Thus culture only gains sense in the presence of nature. Kinship grounds in the facts of nature (strathern) (slide 25) Kinship also grounds in the facts of culture.
