Subverted Kinship - Nurturing and Inhabiting Gender in Amerindian Philosophy

Diego Madi Dias (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

286 Seiten

2025
HAU Books (Verlag)
978-1-912808-43-4 (ISBN)

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Through a rich narrative ethnography of domestic life, this book explores the philosophy of social relations among the Guna (Cuna), an Amerindian people of Panama. This intimate study brings us into the heart of the family economy, describing its nuanced interactions among coresidents through two dimensions: an aesthetic of production resting on the gendered division of labor and an ethic of affects informing the language and enactment of kinship. By exploring local techniques of nurture-child-rearing, singing, feeding, and care practices-the book shows how the Guna create kinship and inhabit gender. The acceptance the Guna show for same-sex relationships and cross-gender roles-which they accorded to the author himself-allows kinship to be both subverted and affirmed at the same time. Subverting kinship does not undermine the structure or dynamics of residential interrelations; on the contrary, it dramatically foregrounds kinship as a lived experience of reciprocal nurture, thus enabling gender to be modulated, and inhabited in multiple ways.

Diego Madi Dias is associate researcher at the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale (LAS) in Paris and assistant professor of anthropology in the Department of Health, Life Cycle, and Society at the University of Sao Paulo's School of Public Health. He conducts research on kinship, gender, residence, and intimacy among the indigenous Guna of Panama.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.10.2020
Sprache	englisch
Maße	6 x 9 mm
Gewicht	666 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-912808-43-9 / 1912808439
ISBN-13	978-1-912808-43-4 / 9781912808434
Zustand	Neuware