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Thinking the body as a basis, provocation and burden of life
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Thinking the body as a basis, provocation and burden of life

by Gert Melville, Carlos Ruta
August 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
259 pages
8h 43m
English
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
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Hua Cai

Belief – Institution – Behavior

A Comparison of Four Systems of Representation of the Body

Before medically assisted procreation and cloning, the fact that the birth of a child results from coupling between two sexes seemed evident to all ethnic groups on our planet, regardless of their cultural differences and geographical situations. Coupling is widely recognized as necessary for reproduction. However, based on this sexual act which seemed to be an obligatory rite of passage, man has invented various systems: matrilineal, patrilineal, of cognation, etc. What is the basis of this institutional diversity? Is it biological realities? Is it social facts? Is it psychological facts? Others? Or a combination of two or more of these?

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