Prácticas y categorías de parentesco en Jasimaná, noroeste andino de Argentina

Abstract

During the Spanish colonization, the genealogical ideology and the Catholic modelof legitimate marriage and descent have spread in America. Nonetheless, indigenous“cultures” of family and kinship have lasted and they still exist in Andean Argentina.The text aims to analyse emic categories and practices of kinship people performein the highland of Jasimana (province of Salta, NWA-North Western Argentina),from the perspective of cultural anthropology. Ethnographic method, case studyand graphic reconstruccions of family networks allow us to focus on the dynamicsof the local domestic groups to point out their cultures of kinship, taking underconsideration that the highland is part of a wider historical and cultural context, suchas the North Western of Argentina and the Andean macro area.