Abstract

SMIETNIANSKY, Silvina. Debates about identity in gamete’s donation: between construction and heritage. An approach from the Argentine context. Rev. Mus. Antropol. [online]. 2024, vol.17, n.1, pp.97-108.  Epub Apr 30, 2024. ISSN 1852-060X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.31048/1852.4826.v17.n1.42541.

In the context of the current debates about the disclosure of donor conception, this paper explores the perspectives on identity of people who have resorted to donating sperm and/or eggs in Buenos Aires City and for whom filiation with their descendants is not based on sharing biogenetic substance. Through the examination of a corpus of interviews conducted between 2018 and 2020 and in dialogue with kinships studies in anthropology, two notions of identity are recognized, identity as a construction or process and identity as an attribute transmitted through genes. Fathers and mothers’ reflections about the identity of their children and the identity of the donors return us to the problem of the biological and social aspects of kinship and the culture/nature binomial, forcing us to reflect on the distinction and articulation between both domains.

Keywords : Identity; Gametes donation; Kinship studies; Nature/culture.

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