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Métissage: étude comparative des systèmes de classification sociale et politique

Métissage: étude comparative des systèmes de classification sociale et politique
Métissage: étude comparative des systèmes de classification sociale et politique
In this article we will argue that although humans always migrated and mated, transgressions of socio-cultural group boundaries not necessarily engendered new categories of classification for mixed offspring. We will show, instead, that the presence or absence of mixed categories depends on the socio-political circumstances, ontologies, systems of kinship and reproduction that distinguish human groups that enter into contact, beginning with the example of how and why the Hispanic-American category of mestizo was introduced. The empirical background of this thesis is the comparative historical and/or ethnographic study of Colonial Hispano-American Society, of the Argentine Republic, of three Latin-American indigenous societies (Kuna, Tsachila and Candoshi), Catalan nationalism vis-à-vis Spanish immigrants, the Chamorro on the Mariana Islands, the inhabitants of Southern Moroccan Oasis, and the cast society in the north of India. The aim is to uncover the conditions under which « mixed » social categories are either politically inappropriate or logically inconceivable. The article will thus, furthermore, show that a category of « mixed » people is neither natural nor that its naturalization is, therefore, universal.
229–246
Ventura i Oller, Monserrat
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Surrallés, Alexandre
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Ojeda-Mata, Maite
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Dieste, Josep Luis Mateo
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Kradolfer, Sabine
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Dominguez, Pablo
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Coello, Alexandre
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Clua i Faine, Montserrat
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van den Bogaert, Alice
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Ventura i Oller, Monserrat
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Surrallés, Alexandre
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Ojeda-Mata, Maite
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Dieste, Josep Luis Mateo
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Kradolfer, Sabine
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Dominguez, Pablo
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Coello, Alexandre
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Clua i Faine, Montserrat
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van den Bogaert, Alice
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Stolcke, Verena
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Ventura i Oller, Monserrat, Surrallés, Alexandre, Ojeda-Mata, Maite, Dieste, Josep Luis Mateo, Martínez Mauri, Mónica, Kradolfer, Sabine, Dominguez, Pablo, Coello, Alexandre, Clua i Faine, Montserrat, van den Bogaert, Alice and Stolcke, Verena (2014) Métissage: étude comparative des systèmes de classification sociale et politique. Anthropologie et Sociétés, 38 (2), 229–246. (doi:10.7202/1026173ar).

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In this article we will argue that although humans always migrated and mated, transgressions of socio-cultural group boundaries not necessarily engendered new categories of classification for mixed offspring. We will show, instead, that the presence or absence of mixed categories depends on the socio-political circumstances, ontologies, systems of kinship and reproduction that distinguish human groups that enter into contact, beginning with the example of how and why the Hispanic-American category of mestizo was introduced. The empirical background of this thesis is the comparative historical and/or ethnographic study of Colonial Hispano-American Society, of the Argentine Republic, of three Latin-American indigenous societies (Kuna, Tsachila and Candoshi), Catalan nationalism vis-à-vis Spanish immigrants, the Chamorro on the Mariana Islands, the inhabitants of Southern Moroccan Oasis, and the cast society in the north of India. The aim is to uncover the conditions under which « mixed » social categories are either politically inappropriate or logically inconceivable. The article will thus, furthermore, show that a category of « mixed » people is neither natural nor that its naturalization is, therefore, universal.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 21 July 2014
Published date: 2014
Alternative titles: Métissage: comparative study of social and political classification systems

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Local EPrints ID: 420774
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/420774
PURE UUID: 14f36205-7ad9-4450-a119-96ef3e111f41
ORCID for Maite Ojeda-Mata: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5215-8940

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Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 19:46

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Author: Monserrat Ventura i Oller
Author: Alexandre Surrallés
Author: Maite Ojeda-Mata ORCID iD
Author: Josep Luis Mateo Dieste
Author: Mónica Martínez Mauri
Author: Sabine Kradolfer
Author: Pablo Dominguez
Author: Alexandre Coello
Author: Montserrat Clua i Faine
Author: Alice van den Bogaert
Author: Verena Stolcke

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