SOCIOL 2PP3 Chapter 2: Chapter 2
18 Jan 2019
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Conception: the question of who our kin, our relations, are is answered in numerous ways, trobriand islands - not about sperm, it"s the entry of a spirit child into the womb, the males role is. Incest: the most dramatic exceptions to incest are found in certain royal dynasties where inbreeding was enforced in order to keep the purity of the royal line, as well as in ptolemaic and roman egypt. It is the social definitions of significant kinship relations that are important in defining incest rather than any concept of natural, biological imperatives militating against sexual intercourse within a natural family unit. Parent/child relations: adoption: the woman who took you in is just the same as your biological mother. In most societies it is agreed that the adopted child is more the foster fathers than the true father.
