Conclusion: Oceanic Conceptions of the Relationship between People and Property
| Autor: | Michael A. Rynkiewich, Michael D. Lieber |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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| Zdroj: | Human Organization. 66:90-97 |
| ISSN: | 1938-3525 0018-7259 |
| DOI: | 10.17730/humo.66.1.34643v232w08qm86 |
| Popis: | This concluding article examines Oceanic cultural premises that define the relationships between people and the places they inhabit, taking local concepts of property as manifestations of these premises. Oceanic people share a common conception of the person as a relatum, one end of a relationship, because they share common ideas about how one becomes a person. Central to these conceptions is the common understanding of fetal inheritance: the idea that a fetus inherits not only somatic traits that its parents inherited from their parents, but also somatic changes that the parents acquired before and during the pregnancy. These include relationships between the fetus's parents and other people and relationships between the parents and features of their environment. Once incorporated, they are transformed into somatic substance and transferred to the growing fetus. In this manner, a baby's somatic substance includes parts of the place the parents lived. People are in places, but places are also in people. T... |
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