ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Langkawi, Surrogacy
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Langkawi island, malaysia - janet carsten: people in langkawi, malaysia have very diff concepts of relatedness from our own concept. It is about what they eat and where they live, that determines their relatedness. All meals are eaten by the members of the household. They eat cooked rice (considered only real food) Eating together in the house around the hearth is the central focus of what it means to belong to a household. The hearth is the main central part of the house. Relatedness in langkawi is determined by three things: Love: relatedness starts in the womb and ends at death, milk, after birth, children are fed milk from the mother, derived from the mother"s blood, the source of emotional and physical connectioness from the mother. The californians - charis thompson: the californians - a tribe, biology and genes are underdetermining, dont determine anything, case studies. Fertilized egg in vitro and then is planted in woman.
