Trekking Through History by Rival Laura;

Author:Rival, Laura;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SCI020000, Science/Life Sciences/Ecology, SOC002000, Social Science/Anthropology/General
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2002-05-15T16:00:00+00:00

The Dialectics of Incorporation and Separation

So far I have emphasized the centrality of biological reproduction for the constitution of social relations within the nanicabo. Normal social intercourse is characterized by “heightened mutual interaction,” to use Turner’s (1995:152) inspired phrasing. Persons and communities, or the sharing bodies of autonomous beings, are conceptualized as processes that unfold in time, through the cumulative experience of living side by side, day after day. Consanguinized co-residence, however, cannot entirely negate the role played by marriage and affinity in social reproduction. Huaorani society is highly endogamous, and most marriages are uxorilocal and take place between cross-cousins (see table 5.1). As I shall now argue, house groups and the forest groves in which they dwell are mutually constituted through the complementary processes of incorporation and separation. Death in old age, or the progressive transformation of an abandoned longhouse, and uxorilocality, or the gradual incorporation in the wives’ house groups of men who start their married careers almost as strangers, epitomize each of these two processes.

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