“Todos somos familia aquí”: Familia, alianza y reproducción etnocultural entre los Calós (Gitanos) de Ciudad de México.
This text analyzes the relevance of kinship and family culture in the cultural reproduction of the Calós (Gitanos) that form the community of Mexico City. The qualitative methodology uses anthropological immersion techniques. The objective is to analyze how the kinship system is constructed from gen...
| Published in: | Latin American Research Review Vol. 59; no. 3; pp. 636 - 653 |
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Cambridge University Press
Sep2024
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| Summary: | This text analyzes the relevance of kinship and family culture in the cultural reproduction of the Calós (Gitanos) that form the community of Mexico City. The qualitative methodology uses anthropological immersion techniques. The objective is to analyze how the kinship system is constructed from genealogy to allow cultural comparison and to corroborate the functioning of a bilateral society with patrilineal nuance. It also underlines the importance of the preservation of ethnocultural difference, not only through social and family organization but also through sociobiological endogamy. The fact is that the Gitanos feel somewhat related to one another, even though genealogically they are not. This imprecise logic of the functioning of the kinship system raises interesting questions for the field of Romani studies. |
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