Having children, with whom? Between families and anthropo-poiesis
Abstract
The analysis of the common expression “bear children” and the examination of some ethnographic cases allow the author to focus on the notion of “bearing”, not only as a biological process, but also as a cultural and social one. In particular, on the one hand it retrieves the concept of filiation and complementary filiation, on the other it makes use of the anthropo-poietic perspective. This perspective shows, above all, how many societies dwell on the difficult task of “bearing children”, a task which is entrusted, in the various ethnographic cases, not to the conjugal family of origin, but to mothers and fathers who are not the biological ones: a social sharing that can even involve one’s enemies.Anuac is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence 4.0. With the licence CC-BY, authors retain the copyright, allowing anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy their contribution. The work must be properly attributed to its author. It should be also mentioned that the work has been first published by the journal Anuac.
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