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La consanguinité

Horizon indépassable de la raison parentaire ?
Emmanuel Désveaux
p. 105-124

Abstracts

Consanguinity, the Unsurpassable Horizon of the Rationale of Kinship? -- A brief epistemology of kinship studies, occupying as they do a central place in anthropology, brings to light a most unexpected constant: recurring recourse to "consanguinity". To what degree is this notion universally relevant? Might it not derive from common sense? This itinerary of kinship studies starts with Lewis H. Morgan to meet up, via William H. R. Rivers, with Claude Lévi-Strauss, who openly emphasized marital alliances, in other words "matrimoniality". Special notice is taken of Alfred L. Kroeber, who, at a quite early date, was wary of any too exclusively sociological interpretation of the facts and nomenclature of kinship.

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References

Bibliographical reference

Emmanuel Désveaux, “La consanguinité”L’Homme, 164 | 2002, 105-124.

Electronic reference

Emmanuel Désveaux, “La consanguinité”L’Homme [Online], 164 | octobre-décembre 2002, Online since 14 June 2003, connection on 29 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/lhomme/191; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/lhomme.191

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