Family Stories, Property Stories: Kinship Dynamics in an Ancient Large Estate in Northeastern Brazil

Authors

  • Fernanda Figurelli Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Misiones (UNaM)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2017.132075

Keywords:

Family, Property, Public-Private, Kinship Dynamic, Northeast Brazil

Abstract

This article is based on fieldwork in an old large property of cotton and of cattle in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Public archives, former owners and former workers tell a story about the property in which is central the family that owns the land. Thus, when we think about the property, kinship ties of their owners are fundamental. At the same time, the dynamics of these relationships revolves around the land concentration. In this way, rather than a priori delimited entities, we note a mutually constitutive relationship between family and property, which questions the boundaries between “public sphere” and “private sphere”. The article proposes the family as a continuous process of production. Also it shows the specific forms that this process take, in which kinship and land concentration are indissoluble.

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Published

2017-05-12

Issue

Vol. 60 No. 1 (2017)

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How to Cite

Figurelli, F. (2017). Family Stories, Property Stories: Kinship Dynamics in an Ancient Large Estate in Northeastern Brazil. Revista De Antropologia, 60(1), 242-262. https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2017.132075