Penser « maison », penser « famille ». Résidence domestique et parenté dans les sociétés rurales de l'est de la France

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ID8927910
AuthorsClaude Karnoouh (corresponding author)
Year1979
Volume75
Issue1
Pages35-75
Publication date1979-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueÉtudes rurales (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0014-2182 • E-ISSN: 1777-537X
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/rural.1979.2496
OpenAlexW2090629999
LanguageFR
Citations received3
References cited6

Thinking « maison », thinking a family ». Some of the concepts employed in the field of theoritical ethnological thought about family life belong as well to the ordinary language as to the jural codes which govern the institutions. Among these concepts, that of "nuclear family" (or more simply of "family") come the fore. The Author shows at first that the meaning of this term (married couple /children) is a recent creation of the urban and bourgeois society which developes during the 18th century. The aristocrats and some peasant societies called their domestic unit "maison". By several examples, the Author shows that the universality of the "nuclear family" — lived in as well as a jurai entity — looks rather like an ethnocentric ideology which, if applied to European peasant societies, dissimulates more than it enlightens their specific cultural features. Secondly, basing himself on datas collected in rural societies of openfield in Eastern France, the Author shows that the concept of "nuclear family" does not express the domestic residence group's life. This life belongs to the "chez" which belongs itself to a classification of space and of rights of use on landproperties. As to "family", a commonly used term among the peasants, it refers to another cognitive field: that of kinship and matrimony. It is by sticking to the autochtone language that the Author can partialy restitute the specific sense of the domestic residence group and of the kin relationships which in some ways represents the ideal norms of these rural culture

Bourgeoisie · Epistemology · Humanities · Ideology · Kinship · Meaning (existential · Peasant · Political science · Politics · Residence · Sociology · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Anthropology · French Urban and Social Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy

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