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When 'Blood Speaks': Naming the Father and the 'mystics' of Kinship in Dominica, Lesser Antilles<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/when-blood-speaks>
February 28 2018 | 17:30 | Location: UCL Institute of the Americas, 51 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PN<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/contact-us>
Dr. Adom Heron (Goldsmiths) - In Dominica they say that 'blood speaks' - it has an uncanny way of revealing relatedness between unknown kin. In this paper I posit 'the problem of paternity' (paternity's inherent putativity) as an age old problematic in anthropology and suggest a social solution from the Antilles. I argue that 'blood speaks' - via sympathetic pregnancies and other 'mystic' bodily experiences - to assign and re-assign fatherhood throughout the reproductive life-course. Herein, I show how Dominican fathers, oft maligned as absent or marginal family appendages, are intimately drawn into reproduction by subtle spiritual forces.
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