Spiritual Kinship and Potential Affinity in South America

Authors

  • Helena Moreira Schiel Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2018.148952

Keywords:

Kinship, Potential Affinity, Godparenthood, Politics

Abstract

By the colonial encounter, two kinds of institutionalized relations (Christian godparenthood and Amerindian potential affinity) have shown so much similitude that they could be translated in each other. Departing from an approach to Salvatore D’Onofrio’s suggestion of a “spiritual kinship atom”, I want to suggest that the two institutions evoke the same kind of sociological framework.  More than the substitution of traditional kinship, I believe that spiritual kinship has a relation of superposition and a kind of overcome to family ties. I advance the hypothesis that this kind of institutionalized relation would be at the basis of every political relation.

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Author Biography

  • Helena Moreira Schiel, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará
    Helena Moreira Schiel é professora assistente na UFOPA (Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará), doutoranda em Antropologia Social na EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, França). Realiza pesquisas junto aos Karajá desde 1999. Atualmente tem se interessado por relações de parentesco, guerra, cultura material e etnomusicologia.

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2018-08-13

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Schiel, H. M. (2018). Spiritual Kinship and Potential Affinity in South America. Revista De Antropologia, 61(2), 187-207. https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2018.148952