ANTA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Matrilineality, Eugenius Warming, Fetus
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A baby is believed to come from tuma. There is no ceremony only involves closest matrilineal female kin, the village not involved. The woman stays in house for weeks and baby is high up in a wooden crate above fire - never dies. After this short period the child sleeps with mother and children a few years old sleep with father. Naseluma had given birth, and anna was invited after it was born outsider lyfe . Naseluma was assisted by her mother and mother"s sister while in labor. Shortly before she gives birth and months after the baby is born woman lives with her mother. Marriages is between people near by village (valu) is divided into sections called hamlets (katuposula) for each matrilineage marriage not in the same hamlet, but in the same village. Naseluma married a man in her village and moved her belongings to his hamlet.
