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Raising the roof in the transnational Andes: building houses, forging kinship
Author(s) -
Leinaweaver Jessaca B.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of the royal anthropological institute
Language(s) - French
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.62
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1467-9655
pISSN - 1359-0987
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01584.x
Subject(s) - kinship , ethnology , humanities , sociology , locale (computer software) , political science , anthropology , art , computer science , operating system
Transnational migration transforms houses, the rituals surrounding them, and the people who live in those houses and use them to understand aspects of their social and ethnic identities. I focus on the Andean house‐roofing ritual known as the zafacasa to demonstrate the centrality of the house as a mediator for personal relationships, and the importance of such rituals for reconstituting social bonds both in spite of and because of distance. The article goes on to argue that research on consumption should be complemented by a kinship framework in order fully to represent the local meanings of expenditures. Résumé La migration transnationale transforme les maisons, les rituels qui les entourent et les gens qui les habitent et les utilisent pour saisir certains aspects de leur identité sociale et ethnique. L’auteur s’intéresse au rituel de pose de toit andin connu sous le nom de zafacasa pour démontrer le rôle central de la maison en tant que médiateur de relations personnelles et l’importance de ces rituels pour la reconstitution de liens sociaux malgré, et à cause de, la distance. L’article avance qu’il serait utile d’ajouter aux recherches sur la consommation un cadre concernant la parenté, afin d’appréhender de façon plus complète la signification locale des dépenses.

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