Abstract

CERVANTES TREJO, Edith; ESTRADA LUGO, Erin Ingrid Jane  and  BELLO BALTAZAR, Eduardo. Kinship Practices and the Configuration of Spaces for Collective Living in the Tseltal Coffee Area, Tenejapa, Chiapas. Relac. Estud. hist. soc. [online]. 2017, vol.38, n.150, pp.281-315. ISSN 2448-7554.  https://doi.org/10.24901/rehs.v38i150.304.

This essay examines how the practices of patrilocal residence and patrilineal inheritance of land among Tseltal kinship groups impact the construction of the spaces in which they live and work. The spatiality of these kinship practices, based on the principle of collective land ownership, generates an intense social interaction in the daily, or periodic, meetings that group members hold in those places, which are configured as spaces for collective living, or collective seats. These seats thus tend to become spaces in which broad processes of the socialization of knowledge occur. Research was conducted from the perspective of analytical generalizations based on case studies, and seeks to make the theoretical-empirical construction of the role of kinship practices in the organization of the territory of these Ttseltal coffee-growing communities transferable to similar situations, while also contributing to a better understanding of the dynamics of indigenous communities.

Keywords : kinship; residence and inheritance; seat; collective spaces.

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