Anthropology 3332F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Trobriand Islands, Fetus, Simile

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 3332F/G
• Professor: Andrew Walsh

Document Summary

Where did i come from? understood in relation to they particular sociocultural contexts in which they make sense. Understandings (or, folk theories ) of conception/reproduction must be dominant understandings of personhood , gender, and heterosexual gender roles. For anthropologists, studying folk theories of conception/reproduction have always in sociocultural contexts offered us insights into how people understand themselves in relation to others. Understandings of conception/reproduction reflect, and often help reproduce, Interested in how people in the trobriand islands organized themselves as a society. Long-term intensive ethnographic research in the trobriand islands. Matrilineal society (passed through mother to children). Focused on how this matrilineal society worked. His approach : suggested the need to distinguish between what he termed social fatherhood versus biological fatherhood . Essential in what will become a child while a woman doesn"t. Delaney notes how this monogenetic folk theory of procreation is common in.