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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shapiro, Warren
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©2009.
Subjects:
Indians of South America > Kinship.
Indians of South America > Sexual behavior.
Paternity.
Conception.
Paternity
Fertilization
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780761845331
076184533X
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Three primitivist projects
  • The grand claims of Beckerman and Valentine
  • The northwest Amazon cases
  • Other pertinent cases : general considerations
  • Evidence re focality in kin classification simpliciter
  • Evidence re focality in kin classification stemming from partible paternity
  • Evidence re the residential and symbolic isolation of the sexually bonded pair and dependent offspring
  • Evidence re sexual jealousy
  • Evidence re the denigration of women
  • Miscellaneous evidence
  • Conclusion.

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