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making kin: kinship theory and Zumbagua adoptions

WEISMANTEL, MARY·1995·American Ethnologist
DOI 10.1525/ae.1995.22.4.02a00010
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The biological definition of family at the root of functionalist kinship theory has been rightly criticized by contemporary feminist and symbolic anthropologists, but in retreating into an antinatural position such critiques simply recapitulate the limitations of an opposition between nature and culture in which the former is prior and essential, the latter secondary and historical. From the perspective of Zumbagua, where people become parents by feeding and caring for children over extended periods of time, both schools of thought are not only inadequate to explain fully the material bases of local practice but are representative of a specific Western‐bourgeois ideology that indigenous people actively oppose.

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Authors
WEISMANTEL, M.
Venue
American Ethnologist
Publisher
Wiley
Published
1995-11
Volume
22
Issue
4
Pages
685-704
ISSN
  • 0094-0496 (ISSN-L)
  • 1548-1425
DOI
10.1525/ae.1995.22.4.02a00010
OpenAlex
W2018819681
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288
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38
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12.82
Type
journal article
Language
en
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