ANTH 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Patrilineality, Surrogacy, Social Fact
17 May 2017
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Lomoar cpsd| 987298: both matrilineal and patrilineal descent. Different kinds of property inherited along each line. Individuals may choose to affiliate with either group (at a certain age) Kinship systems may change in response to internal and external forces. Part of the kinship project (kinship in the uk and north american) Enduring diffuse solidarity: nothing about blood or law, fictive kin people you consider in your family, but are not, social/cultural considerations are much more important than blood or law. Worked in san francisco at time of aids crisis. Made de facto families went against the traditional family. Surrogate pregnancy exposes motherhood not as a fact of nature, but as a social fact. There is also usually an assumption of heterosexual marriage or coupling: threatens the natural process of birth shared process (motherhood as well) Shared motherhood: belonging of the child tradition dictates that the mother raises the child that she births, sometimes seen as unnatural or abnormal.
