1978
DOI: 10.2307/2801936
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'Straightening the Way': An Enga Kinship Conundrum

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“…Relative-product logic still applies, however, even where a connection is not traced to a common ancestor; if that woman has a daughter then she is one's 'sister' (Keen 2004;Dousset 2012; see also Feil [1978] on a similar Enga practice). Kin relations may be extended even further where two people who are not knowingly related compute a relationship through a link in common to a third person in what Dousset calls the "relational triangle" (2008:272).…”
Section: Extended Kin Networkmentioning
confidence: 97%
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“…Relative-product logic still applies, however, even where a connection is not traced to a common ancestor; if that woman has a daughter then she is one's 'sister' (Keen 2004;Dousset 2012; see also Feil [1978] on a similar Enga practice). Kin relations may be extended even further where two people who are not knowingly related compute a relationship through a link in common to a third person in what Dousset calls the "relational triangle" (2008:272).…”
Section: Extended Kin Networkmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Among Krahô, naming produced Omaha equivalences in the predominantly Crow terminology (Melatti 1979:72-73). Other reported changes include those of clan identity and primary kinship relations upon marriage, and the conversion of uterine kin into agnates in the Papua New Guinea highlands (Feil 1978).…”
Section: "Metaphorical" Kinshipmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…De acuerdo a la fórmula de Wagner, mientras la consanguinidad fusiona, el intercambio posee la facultad de segmentar. Entre los enga, la conversión de agnados en no agnados se realiza mediante la instauración de un vínculo de contraparte de intercambio -denominada "enderezar el camino" (Feil, 1978) -, que activa lazos complementarios a los de descendencia, tales como las relaciones matrilaterales y afinales.…”
Section: Analogía Y Genealogía: El Papel De Los Objetos Técnicos En L...unclassified