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LA PARENTÉ DANS TOUS SES ÉTATS

Entre inceste et échange

Réflexions sur le modèle matrimonial athénien
Jérôme Wilgaux
p. 659-676

Abstracts

Between Incest and Exchange: Thoughts about the Athenian Marriage Model. – The notion of a marriage in a close degree, as defined by Claude Lévi-Strauss, sheds light on several aspects of Ancient Athenian kinship, and invites us to globally analyze marital practices and institutions. An analysis in terms of “proximity”, of the alternation between close and far marriages, takes us beyond the endogamy/exogamy opposition and helps us refine current paradigms. As the study of adoption and of anchisteia shows, each individual is placed in a group encompassing his parents through the men as well as the descendants of these men’s daughters and sisters. By placing this incorporation of the wife-takers’ descendants in its context and by enabling us to understand the value placed on a patrilineal marriage, the analysis of contradictions in the exchange relation emphasizes marriage’s fundamental role in Athenian society.

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References

Bibliographical reference

Jérôme Wilgaux, “Entre inceste et échange”L’Homme, 154-155 | 2000, 659-676.

Electronic reference

Jérôme Wilgaux, “Entre inceste et échange”L’Homme [Online], 154-155 | avril-septembre 2000, Online since 18 May 2007, connection on 29 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/lhomme/54; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/lhomme.54

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About the author

Jérôme Wilgaux

Centre Ausonius, Université de Bordeaux-Michel de Montaigne.

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