Travels and kinship dilemmas among Yaminawa (Peruvian Amazon)
Abstract
Yaminawa seem impelled to a constant displacement, sometimes to visit relatives living in distant villages, sometimes to get some temporary employment and to buy goods in town. In the present article, I argue that this incessant movement along a socially and emotionally (rather than geographically) conceived space has a dilemmatic experience of kinship as its driving force. This experience of kinship has productive and social dimensions as well as emotional ones. This text presents an ethnographical description of such dilemmas and raises some considerations about the meaning Yaminawa give to the concept of Comunidad Nativa as a territorially, socially and legally defined entity.
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