| Titre | "Faire de la parenté, faire du sang". Logique et représentations de la chasse à l'espadon | |
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| Auteur | Serge Collet | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 115-116, 1989 Hydraulique | |
| Page | 223-250 | |
| Résumé anglais |
"Making Kinship, Making Blood". The Logic and Images of Hunting for Sword fish
The history of hunting for swordfish in the Strait of Messina goes all the way back to the detailed description by Polybius. How has its recent development led to very restrictive strategies for mobilizing the resources of the kinship system (which, with strong agnatic tendencies, is based on cousin marriages) in order to gain access to and control over fishing zones ? The way zones are shared is homologous to the highly endogamous structure of marriage practices. The latter, by "making kinship" through the exchange of sisters, have enabled a group of fishers with the same patronymic to reproduce itself as an "aristocracy" within this very ancient fishing society and thus control fishing zones. This practice is both the social form and goal of the hunting/fishing expedition : an exchange of prestigious honors between man and swordfish. A noteworthy expression, "making blood" is used to refer to this expedition, which symbolically expresses a way of appropriating nature. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1989_num_115_1_3267 |
