METAMORPHOSES OF KINSHIP AMONG THE TUVAN

PII
S0869-54150000616-0-1
DOI
10.31857/S50000616-0-1
Publication type
Article
Status
Published
Authors
Volume/ Edition
Volume / Issue №4
Pages
129-145
Abstract
The author argues that there are a number of facts pointing to the transition of Tuvan kinship from the patrilineal system observed in the prerevolutionary period to a cognatic system with a recent trend toward matrilineality. The advancement of the woman both in kinship and economic relations may be seen in many ways as a result of social policies pursued during the Soviet period. The transformation further deepened in the 1990s, when Tuvan men generally experienced a crisis. The traditional cognatic way of inheriting shaman's faculties, as the author suggests, contained a relationship model which competed with the patrilineal order and carried the rudiments of what would grow into the contemporary transformation of the Tuvan kinship system.
Keywords
TUVANS, POST-SOVIET SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS, KINSHIP THEORY, SHAMANISM, NOTIONS OF THE PERSON
Date of publication
01.08.2009
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