ANTH 2170 Lecture Notes - Marilyn Strathern, Traditional Medicine, Uterus
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Sex, gender and the body: cross-cultural approaches to the body, gender, sexuality and kinship. Reading the trouble with nature: sex in science and popular culture . Lucien herr"s aphorism expresses a partial and provisional truth: we do not. God"s first light or as a burning ball of hydrogen, we cannot quite see it the same way as the aztecs or the norse did. Not even the most universal occurrences give rise to any clear consensus about the nature" of nature or what might constitute its firstness". It will seem self-evident that nature (as in human nature") is somehow allied with the body (as against the mind, and all that is conscious and volitional). And even in modern, western cultures, nature"s place is by no means stationary or unchanging. In making claims about nature, modern western people often point to the self- evidence of the body, its firstness, and the ground it undeniably provides for both thought and activity.
