The sociality in Kaiowa family: generational relationships and gender and the microcosm of social life

The article deals with the social construction of gender and the generational distinctions between the models and practices of production and reproduction of social life among a Tupi-Guarani-speaking population, inhabiting the borders bentween Brazil and Paraguay. The goal is to set up, from the att...

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Main Author: Pereira, Levi Marques
Format: Online
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Estadual de Campinas 2008
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Online Access:https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/tematicas/article/view/12441
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Summary:The article deals with the social construction of gender and the generational distinctions between the models and practices of production and reproduction of social life among a Tupi-Guarani-speaking population, inhabiting the borders bentween Brazil and Paraguay. The goal is to set up, from the attributes allocated to cach sex and generation, the way how people are integrated in the “domestic fire” of the kaiowa, an organizational model that correspond to the nuclear family, as wc know in the Brazilian society. The reflection proposed here intend to connect to the master thesis and the PhD dissertation where I did an approach of social morphology of kaiowa, susceptible not only to the form, according to the idea that this population traditionally conceive their institutions, but also to the deep transformations imposed by contact, as the grouping of population in the current reservations and the intensive process of environmental disruption.
ISSN:2595-315X