Media, Information and Technoculture 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Telefol People, Arapesh Languages, Names Of China
2 Dec 2016
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To minimize mother child bond and maximize father child bond. Clan is amogomous: you have to marry outside the clan. Kinship are important for brokaging peace and relationships between groups. Ancestral spirit(korava) what makes the land of the crops productive makes them grow, spirits help plant production. > getting rid of womb blood that they injected from there mother as a fetus. >getting rid of all thing from mom: sweat left from breast milk residue, blood from womb, puke out food from mother . breaking connections. >getting rid of moms koreva and getting dads koreva. >in the end full fledge clan member and can sleep in male house. Fathers land, clan land, mothers and wives marry in from outside. Childhood betrothal married off in different clan and go with in laws. >adopt into clan and feed them lots of stuff making he rover into one of them and getting rid of her old foods from past clan and land.
