Travels and kinship dilemmas among Yaminawa (Peruvian Amazon)
Yaminawa seem impelled to a constant displacement, sometimes to visit relatives living in distant villages, sometimes to get some temporary employment and to buy goods in town. In the present article, I argue that this incessant movement along a socially and emotionally (rather than geographically)...
| Published in: | Revista de Antropología Social |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Ediciones Complutense
2018
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RASO/article/view/59432 https://doi.org/10.5209/RASO.59432 |
| Summary: | Yaminawa seem impelled to a constant displacement, sometimes to visit relatives living in distant villages, sometimes to get some temporary employment and to buy goods in town. In the present article, I argue that this incessant movement along a socially and emotionally (rather than geographically) conceived space has a dilemmatic experience of kinship as its driving force. This experience of kinship has productive and social dimensions as well as emotional ones. This text presents an ethnographical description of such dilemmas and raises some considerations about the meaning Yaminawa give to the concept of Comunidad Nativa as a territorially, socially and legally defined entity. Sea para visitar a parientes radicados en aldeas lejanas, o sea para ir a conseguir trabajo a otros lugares o a comprar mercancías en la ciudad, los Yaminawa parecen estar impelidos a un continuo desplazarse. Argumento en este texto que este movimiento incesante por un espacio definido antes como social y afectivo que como geográfico, tiene como motor la experiencia dilemática del parentesco, que presenta dimensiones tanto productivas como sociales y afectivas. A partir de la etnografía de estos dilemas, el texto plantea consideraciones sobre el significado de la Comunidad Nativa — como entidad territorial y social jurídicamente definida — para los Yaminawa. |
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