tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204289.post112175694590785657..comments2024-03-28T12:12:45.202-05:00Comments on Independent Country: Knowledge vs. Power, or, What If There Is No Cliff?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11620822221586726516noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204289.post-1121795100980880262005-07-19T12:45:00.000-05:002005-07-19T12:45:00.000-05:00Malinowski's Trobriander informants insisted that ...Malinowski's Trobriander informants insisted that sex and pregnancy could not be related. As evidence, they pointed out that the ugliest woman in the tribe, with whom no man would ever have sex, had several children. Also, a man returned from a voyage of a year to find that his wife was pregnant, an impossibility if sex was related since he was not around to have sex with her.Vache Follehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14942494955243643381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204289.post-1121791990099900202005-07-19T11:53:00.000-05:002005-07-19T11:53:00.000-05:00Your pregancy example reminded me of something I l...Your pregancy example reminded me of something I learned in an Anthropology 101 class about some Pacific island society (I'm afraid I forget which one). The people there believed that breaking the hymen opened a woman to possession by spirits that could make her pregnant, but they drew no connection between sexual intercourse and pregnancy. As a result, they had no concept of fatherhood. The only male authority figures in a child's life were his maternal uncles.Kevin Carsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07525803609000364993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204289.post-1121782508420988232005-07-19T09:15:00.000-05:002005-07-19T09:15:00.000-05:00Power imposes limits often under color of protecti...Power imposes limits often under color of protecting us from some danger, but this legitimating argument does not require any real danger or any real motive of care to be advanced. The more remote and abstract the danger, perversely, the more plausible the argument seems and the more readily we surrender to power.Vache Follehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14942494955243643381noreply@blogger.com