Melanesian kinship networks
 

Strathern's work draws on the "conceptual schemes" of Melanesian peoples, in which "they know sons who give birth to their fathers. Women who are men in a female form and vice versa. Containers that are, in their turn, contained."

> from Annemarie Mol's The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (2002)

> tagged with #family, #trans_studies, #androgyny, #tribalism, #investigate

> created February 13, 2021 at 3:46:35 PM


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