Système de parenté et acteur : quelles médiations ?

• Main Author: Claire Chatelain
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Centre de Recherches Historiques 2018-06-01
• Series: L'Atelier du CRH
• Subjects: kinship systems-structures; alliances; marital exchanges; micro-history; actors; long-term
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/acrh/8611

In a recent publication, Gérard Dellile emphazises a kinship model, identified with marital figures which sustains morphological lineages. It appears like a mid-complex marital echange system that has changed during the 18th century. Many contextual situations in which some transformation would happen are analysed by G. Dellile in order to show how this system was own-centered for a long time. This article, accorded to many references in history and anthropology, shows how G. Delille thesis is underlined by what Levi-Strauss called kinship structure. Its characteristics are discussed by asking the problem of contextualization and periodization. Two ways of research have been already taken in account. The first one focuses on the macro-historic scale of kinship systems and their family occurrences. The second focuses on the interpretative ability of the actors to build up their alliances and marital partnerships in the way of constructing kinship features. Then, four little cases of unsual actions in matter of marriage between 16th and 18th centuries, allow us to analyse judicial qualifications, by which politics of familial positions are treated ; these directories are connected with actors affects according to differences and repetitions.