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La modification de l’expression génétique de la descendance de l’homme

2014

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descendance de l’homme[SHS.ANTHRO-SE] Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnologymodificationexpression génétique[SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnologyComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
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Descent among the Wayú. Concepts and social meanings

2008

Descent among the Wayú. Concepts and social meanings. Taking the contemporary rethinking of the descent notion in Lowland South American ethnography as a starting point, the article provides an analysis of matrilineal descent among the Wayú. Using new ethnographical data, special attention is paid to indigenous concepts and to the way matrilineal descent articulates with other principles of social classification. By virtue of the role that matrilineal descent plays in defining territoriality and in feuds, the Wayú offer a very interesting case for rethinking the theoretical and comparative debate about the indigenous societies of Lowland South America and for reflecting on the complexity of…

descendenciaparentescoCultural Studiesdescendancediscendenza parentela popolazioni indigene sudamericane wayùVirtueAnthropologymedia_common.quotation_subjectTerritorialitydescentGenealogyIndigenousAnthropologySouth americanEthnographySettore M-DEA/01 - Discipline DemoetnoantropologicheSociologyparentékinshipmedia_commonDescent (mathematics)Journal de la société des américanistes
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