Author: Berghahn Journals Matan
Publisher: Berghahn Books
E-ISSN: 2047-7716|33|2|90-105
ISSN: 0305-7674
Source: Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, The, Vol.33, Iss.2, 2015-10, pp. : 90-105
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Abstract
Drawing on ethnographic research in the Brazilian state of Maranhão, this article proposes the concept of the 'intimate event' as a heuristic device in the cross-cultural study of kinship and relatedness. This theoretical construct refers to the retrospective recognition of affective transactions as meaningfully intimate, that recognition being an event which in Maranhão compels ethical reflection. Intimacy can be imagined as an aesthetic of practice that indicates when something simply feels right, and which then frames the correctness of both moral conformity and transgression in affective terms.
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