ANTH 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Infertility, Surrogacy, Langkawi

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Anthropology (ANTH)
• Course: ANTH 010
• Professor: gaddis

Document Summary

The substance of kinship and the heat of the hearth. Feeding, personhood ad relatedness among malays in langkawi. Feeding is a vital component in the process of becoming a person and participating in social relations fully. Begins at conception, continues through feeding and growing and living together in the house. Kinship is not always derived from procreation. Houses and food are not mere inanimate entities. Share qualities with the people they contain and nourish. Important to emphasize the centrality of women, houses and siblingship to. Malay kinship and the way these are symbolically linked together. Central to the way shared substance is conceived. Houses never have more than one hearth. Associated with women, who spend most their time here. Dapur (hearth) is where the women perform the activities that are central to the reproduction of the house and its members. Also associated with children; couple cannot make a new house. Feeding and shared substance without a child.