Jaguar People, Larva People
Animals and Plants in the Constitution of Personhood, Gender Differentiation, and Kinship among the Matses
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Amerindian Kinship, Person, Gender, PanoAbstract
This article approaches Matses notions and practices regarding the growth and constitution of persons, which, on their turn, play a part in what has been called the constitution of Amerindian kinship. I seek to show how relations established with extra-social subjects – plants and animals – are also part of the production of Matses kinship and personhood, and how this process differentiates the circle of close kin internally, including in terms of gender. Thus, the constitution of the Matses person, both male and female, is achieved through “consubstantialization” with both kin and other subjects. The Matses variant of Pano dualism has been generally approached from a sociologial perspective, expressed in patrilineal halfs representing the inside and the outside of society; female and male values. I propose to recast the bëdibo-macubo Matses dualism in terms of kinship production and kin differentiation.
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