Residence, Marriage, and Filiation in the Mazahua Region, Mexico
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https://doi.org/10.18441/ind.v38i1.219-241Abstract
Through the description of seven cases of marriage in the Mazahua region of Mesoamerica, the tensions between a kinship system of agnatic segmentation and another of cognitive segmentation are discussed. To explain this, the article focuses on the rules of inheritance, on the development cycle of the household group and the change of residence of the woman upon marriage, and the configuration of the groups of affiliation in a framework of intense urbanization and regional labor insertion that is impacting the traditional unilinear kinship system.
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2021-06-29
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