Farming of commons: kinship and social practices in Milot, Haiti

Author(s)

Rodrigo Charafeddine Bulamah

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
• Defense date: 2013-03-26

Examining board members

Omar Ribeiro Thomaz; Nadia Farage; Federico Guillermo Neiburg

• Advisor: Omar Ribeiro Thomaz

Abstract

This thesis is ethnography of kinship and social practices in a rural village near Milo in the north of Haiti. Drawing from three and half months of fieldwork and my intellectual training in theoretical dimensions of kinship, I intend to analyze the formation of local households. Building from that foundation, I will evaluate how neighborhood relationships are structured and how people establish and maintain friendships and kinship networks. Examining these kinds of deeply personal relationships opens up unexpected possibilities for thinking about networks of production, exchange, and good/commodity circulation that connects the village to regional markets. My research will also expand to consider how ideas of magic and kinship are complementary parts of the same moral and practical regime (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 10/14556-2 - "In Haiti everything is to be done": family dynamics and the notion of house in the north of Haiti.
• Grantee: Rodrigo Charafeddine Bulamah
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master