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- Title
Kinship as gift and theft: Acts of succession in Mayotte and.
- Authors
LAMBEK, MICHAEL
- Abstract
When kinship is viewed through the lens of succession rather than reproduction, conflict between siblings becomes salient and the gift of kinship can be experienced as theft. Developing an approach to kinship as ethically constituted through acts, I draw on the biblical story of Jacob and Esau to frame an account of succession in Mayotte that transpires in the register of spirit possession. This account follows the lives of two sisters I first described in this journal in 1988.
- Subjects
MAYOTTE; ISRAEL; KINSHIP; KIN recognition; JACOB (Biblical patriarch); ESAU (Biblical figure); CONSANGUINITY
- Publication
American Ethnologist, 2011, Vol 38, Issue 1, p2
- ISSN
0094-0496
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01288.x