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| Author(s): |
Marcio Silva
[1]
Total Authors: 1
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| Affiliation: | [1] Universidade de São Paulo - Brasil
Total Affiliations: 1
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | Rev. Antropol.; v. 65, n. 3 2022-11-21. |
| Abstract | |
ABSTRACT Iroquois kinship vocabularies are one of the most long-standing topics in social anthropology. This article resumes this long tradition. Based on first-hand ethnographic data, the text analyses the kinship classifications of the Enawene-Nawe, an Arawakspeaking people located in Meridional Amazonia. As is typical in such vocabularies, the Enawene-Nawe system does not express a prescriptive rule of marriage. Native discourse only formulates two interdictions: unions between people from the same clan and unions between kin with close genealogical ties. On the other hand, the Enawene-Nawe indicate a virtuous formula of matrimonial alliance that manifests in concepts and practices: direct exchange between two families, without repetition in subsequent generations. (AU) | |