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Conceiving Persons
Ethnographies of Procreation, Fertility and Growth Volume 68
- 256 pages
- English
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About this book
The Monographs on Social Anthropology were established in 1940 and aim to publish results of modem anthropological research of primary interest to specialists. This volume provides an international analysis of the core metaphors and practices of human sexual and social reproduction in their personal, social and cosmological contexts.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 No substance, no kinship? Procreation, performativity and Temanambondro parent-child relations
- 3 Procreation theories and their implications: overcoming the absent father in southern Tanzania
- 4 Making persons, marking differences: procreation beliefs in highland Bolivia
- 5 Every infant is born with its ‘younger sibling’: childbirth and care among Amurang fishermen
- 6 Women, work and procreation beliefs in two Muslim communities
- 7 Procreation in Islam: a reading from Egypt of people and texts
- 8 The light of life: representations of procreation, divinity and property in Carnia and Anatolia
- 9 The essence of being: procreation and sexuality in mid-century Macedonia
- 10 Procreation metaphors in rural Greece: cultivating, bread-making, weaving
- 11 Procreation, patriarchy and medical science: the resistance to recognizing maternal contributions in European embryological thought
- Bibliography
- Index