An Amazonian Iroquois system: Enawene-Nawe kinship classifications
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https://doi.org/10.11606/1678-9857.ra.2022.195922Keywords:
Kinship terminology, Iroquois Systems, alliance schemes, amerindian peoples, Enawene-NaweAbstract
Iroquois kinship vocabularies are one of the most long-standing themes in social anthropology. This article resumes this long tradition. Based on first-hand ethnographic data, the text analyzes the kinship classifications of the Enawene-Nawe, an Aruak-speaking people located in Meridional Amazonia. As is typical in such vocabularies, the case being discussed does not express a prescriptive rule of marriage. Native discourse only formulates two interdictions: unions between people from the same clan and between kin who share 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.
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