Things Anthropologists Worry About: Spatial Descent Groups Among the Panará
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https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2015.102104Keywords:
Panará, Space, History, ModelsAbstract
In 2010 Panará people built a new village upstream of the village where they have lived since 1997. This is the first time since the early 1970s that they have lived in multiple villages. In this paper I reflect on some of the issues that prompted the building of the new village, and the use of space therein. In particular I revisit the idea of ‘spatial descent groups’ and the notion that clans identify with specific locations in the village circle. Drawing on accounts dating back to the late 19th/early 20th century, as well as more recent ethnographic accounts I ask whether connections between space and identity among Ge-speaking groups are above all ‘things anthropologists worry about’.
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