ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fertility Clinic, Langkawi, Surrogacy
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Kinship and relatedness: anthropologists and kinship (d. schneider, langkawi island, malaysia (janet carsten, the californians (charis thompson, ivf with donor eggs, gestational surrogacy, conclusion. Kinship and relatedness is not as it first appears; in the baruya clan, men technically give birth to men. All is not as it seems, we can"t take anything for granted. The idea that blood is thicker than water seems to be a cultural distinction that we have in the west; not everyone follows our practices. Biology exerts itself in particular ways, and appears to be powerful because that"s what we believe, not because it actually is powerful. When we"re thinking about genes, we assume that they are terribly important; which is why they are important. The things that we pick up as natural (including kinship and relatedness) often tend to be cultural. The is complicated by nature since it is always changing; gene-splicing, ivf treatments, etc.
