AN201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sperm Donation, Unilineality, Body Fluid
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The mother"s brother and sister"s son in west africa, goody, 1959. Radcliffe-brown believed mb/ss ritual stealing" was a survival of matrilineal descent, an extension of sentiment. Evans-pritchard focuses on the interactions of the senior generation. Levi-strauss gives a primacy to affinity and kinship developed through marriage. Dumont believes the uncle relation is one of alliance instead of kinship. Anthropology has shied away from comparisons since the 1960s. Bloch attempts to ground goody"s assertion that society is naturally bilateral due to kinship altruism, but this explanation is very generalising. The thread so far has been the fantasy of unilineal filiation. Bloch and parry talk of the phantasy of a world without exchange. In funeral relations, exchange is undone and bilateral persons are distilled into stand alone unilineal persons. Death creates a view of conception, where people imagine their children are the result of the recycling of pure unilineal charac- teristics.
