A geração de casas e crianças na Bahia: paternidade e relacionalidade no Baixo-Sul

Translated title of the contribution: The generation of houses and children in Bahia: paternity and relatedness in the lower south

Patrícia Rezende Anderle, Cecilia Anne McCallum

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Abstract

In “Riachão”, a village of fishermen and seafood harvesters in Bahia state’s “lower South” region, recognition of paternity occurs in the period between conception and the process of making a pregnancy public. People situate themselves as relatives and affines through houses, which are key agents in the constitution of relatedness. The ethnographic discussion makes clear how relatedness emerges in the dynamics of lovemaking, sexual initiation, procreation, and the fabrication of paternity, in which houses are always present. To create kinship in this context, it is necessary to propagate houses. The article contributes to the study of kinship and the social aspects of reproduction in Brazil through problematizing treatment of biological organisms and physiological processes as separate from the material worlds they inhabit and from the objects and things through which they are constituted. Simultaneously, the discussion of the forging of paternal connections in “Riachão” contributes to the literature on “house-ing” through a focus on the imbrication between processes of making new persons, new houses, and relatedness.

Translated title of the contributionThe generation of houses and children in Bahia: paternity and relatedness in the lower south
Original languagePortuguese
Article numbere2024005
Number of pages34
JournalMana: Estudos de Antropologia Social
Volume30
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 May 2024

Keywords

  • Bahia-Brasil
  • Bahia-Brazil
  • Casas
  • Gender
  • Género
  • Gênero
  • houses
  • Paternidad
  • Paternidade
  • Paternity
  • Relacionalidad
  • Relacionalidade
  • Relatedness
  • Reproducción
  • Reproduction
  • Reprodução

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