Anthropology 3332F/G Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Simile, Simone De Beauvoir, Nuclear Family
1 Nov 2017
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In trobriand island, men play little role in creating life. They believe pregnanty results from ancestral spirits associated with the mothers matrilineage reincarnating themselves in the bodies of women. When they die their spirits go to an island and they even die and then reproduction happens. Children fundamentally linked to mothers but not fathers. Seed is the semen that plants life = dad maker of life. Embedded in our language and understanding of conception. ^ related to trobriand island and malinowskis thinking. Caroline delaney"s convo vith turkey villager women as eld men as seeds . Very common in monotheists societies one male god. Male as centre of universe and power. Martin is interested in how culture shapes biologists" descriptions of purportedly natural processes. Femininity of the egg and masculinity of the sperm. Give them name, gender, try to humanize them. Between things, in the middle of things, not in or out yet.
