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Founders, ancestors, and enemies: memory, family, time, and space in the P ernambuco sertão
Author(s) -
Marques Ana Claudia
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of the royal anthropological institute
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.62
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1467-9655
pISSN - 1359-0987
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9655.12061
Subject(s) - inscribed figure , narrative , collective memory , sociology , genealogy , space (punctuation) , genetic genealogy , race (biology) , social psychology , history , psychology , gender studies , demography , art , theology , literature , philosophy , linguistics , mathematics , geometry , population
This article concerns the use of narrative and genealogical frameworks among sertanejos , the inhabitants of the hinterlands ( sertão ) of P ernambuco in the N ortheast of B razil, in the process of grouping and differentiating families. It explores how accounts produced by different people are linked by shared memories of past conflicts – such as cangaço and questões de família (lit. ‘family issues’). Through conceived and lived relationships among relatives and the correlated concepts of ‘blood’ and ‘race’ current in this social formation, I look to identify the different meanings attributed to time and space, inscribed in the collective memory, and implicated in the moving configurations of ‘family’ in a cognatic universe.