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Partible Paternity and Anthropological Theory: The Construction of an Ethnographic Fantasy

Partible Paternity and Anthropological Theory: The Construction of an Ethnographic Fantasy

Shapiro, Warren

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0761845321
ISBN13: 9780761845324
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: Jul 16 2009
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
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 have these 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 shown that individual marriage and the family exist nearly everywhere. More recently, however, the idea has been resurrected by Stephen Beckerman and Paul Valentine in their book Cultures of Multiple Fathers. This book argues that Beckerman and Valentine are completely wrong-in Amazonia, the family exists everywhere, and the occasional trysts which result in shared paternity are subject to male sexual jealousy.

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