Genetrix

Japanese: genetrix
Genetrix

…There are various examples around the world of the idea of ​​distinguishing between the relationship with the father and the relationship with the mother, such as the interpretation of the process from reproduction to the birth of a child under the understanding that the man provides the “seed” and the woman is the “earth” that germinates the seed, or the interpretation that the child’s body is formed by the provision of the “bones” from the man and the “flesh” from the woman. The common understanding of the “folk-biological” relationship of kinship among these ethnic groups is the relationship between the parents who are said to have been involved in reproduction and brought about the birth of the child and the child, and in cultural anthropology, the man who is said to have been involved in reproduction is called the “genitor” and the woman is called the “genetrix”. The relationship between these two and the child born between them is called the “genealogical relationship”, and this relationship is the parent-child relationship believed in according to the reproductive theory of each ethnic group, and is even said to be universal around the world. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "genetrix" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…父親との関係と母親との関係とを区別して考えようとする認識としては,たとえば男性が〈種〉を与え女性が種を発芽する〈大地〉であるとの認識の下に,生殖から子どもの誕生までを解釈している例,子どもの体軀(たいく)は男性から〈骨〉,女性から〈肉〉が提供されたことにより構成されると解釈している例など,世界各地にさまざまな例がある。それら諸民族における親族の〈民俗生物学〉的関係にほぼ共通している認識は,生殖に関与し子どもの誕生をもたらしたとされる両親と子どもとの関係であり,文化人類学では生殖に関与したとされる男性を〈ジェニターgenitor〉,女性を〈ジェニトリックスgenetrix〉と呼んでいる。この2者およびその間にできた子どもとの関係が〈系譜関係〉と称される関係であり,この関係はそれぞれの民族がもつ生殖理論にしたがって信じられている親子関係であって,世界に普遍的であるとまでいわれている。…

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