(wading wes historically controlled through Kinship. Sons whaled with fae)
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inant wo wos tengo fend ber owe tren. She ee te
seo or soa itr ce ge or tty
‘See dhe ete wo ya tc ay
16 Sco Purr 1973 9, wo noted wi ome bemement ht
‘Neal war dconing Gh etn oconitng expectations cf prope
Perea behiar eed by Ea Amercan acho al Woe
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is be sure thw ren were home = ta ea oe
tr twas es, hd Nea at
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8 Including our own
Jeanette Eatwards and Marilyn Strathern
ln March 1995, ci was born fom an embryo that a bee rem
fe more thn four yeas implanted by enians tthe Bourn Hal
lini in Cambridge an carne term by end The rade of the
‘hil’ mum and dod towards dhe surogste other was ned by he
‘rental mother ina double iom of ownership ‘No words can expres
‘ow Tel muy wn perfect aby i, ven ote by my bes fend
the work’ The cil washer ow, by the combined vies oft of
Substance (genetic connection) and the gi that having bec ven
annotbe gen back
‘One would ot ordinary hin rice about dhe iioms of ownership
here Englishspeaters know tht what ie saimed at one's own may
sncompass as mocha calm to identi aduced in ways of eonging
{0 place ora family a it docs to rights of pomerson. Consistent std
subi pressure in ilomatic usage Reps the connotations ape. One
‘nay calm a person as one's om bu ot that ones ho ee At
‘he same ume, equally subteand content iomati pewure keeps
these connotans in tandem. ‘There st x mora. propeety tothe
indigenour Englah concept of ‘owner hich sess that tba
‘utara to (want o) pomes thing, a pat fone owe sl ition,
{itis tobe prt of communyo to Belong ta fay. The ges ee
{o proprietor identity being claimed over large range of aia,
inanimate and quasanimate ents, sacha one's own pas the lac
whee one les, iertanee fal ames, nd 3 forth, Thse suo.
‘ons old some eters force of eaednen'
‘Narang such asoclaons makes a chin ot of them, and lime
can tae! along eins ‘The cid Belongs tothe parents not jst
virus of the genetic connection or the gt ty whi the surge
‘mother ie nap but thug he ci dcy hao mae in |
to Bourn Hal, trough the sl of the cane who implanted
fmbey, through the enopreservatin techgues to whish they
through the support ef fami ar end and so fet, These
thay be claimed as part of the hasory ofthe hie in whi190 Jame sad on arn Shen
Ince our oun mw
‘are hough any ane af the could avo be clan ws p The Engh residents of Altown, in Lancashite (Edwards 1993,
eons nes and Bitores too. What tae inthe wa ie san 1998), construct chains of association that enlarge thet own tee of
omider ther connections to the child aha ta they Ren ‘longing to families by belonging to «place (and see A. Cahen
‘sider themselves s people who belong tone snd 1982), They ao ealarge her sense of blogg om plac by belonging
J seek sidestep one of the impasse: inte whic contemporary tp parcuar fails, Persons claim Allon i they member of