Partible paternity and anthropological theory : the construction of an ethnographic fantasy /
Partible Paternity and Anthropological Theory discusses the conception "partible paternity" within Amazonian Indian communities. "Partible paternity" is the idea that several sexual acts are necessary to produce a fetus and that the mother may havethese with several men, who in t...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md. :
University Press of America,
©2009.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780761845331 076184533X |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Partible Paternity and Anthropological Theory discusses the conception "partible paternity" within Amazonian Indian communities. "Partible paternity" is the idea that several sexual acts are necessary to produce a fetus and that the mother may havethese with several men, who in turn have several sexual partners as well. Victorian anthropologists viewed this situation as "group marriage," a hypothetical state in which individual marriage and the family did not exist and which, presumably, once characterized Western society. The notion of "group marriage" was demolished by 1920, when it was show. |
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| Item Description: | "Portions of this book were read at a kinship symposium in memory of Per Hage at the American Anthropological association meetings in 2006"--Page ix |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 67 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-67). |
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