Keywords
System
High Rio Negro
Relations
Group
Dravidian kinship
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Abstract
This essay intends to test approximations and divergences of the concepts of hierarchy and system in relation to the way they were thought by Louis Dumont to India. It starts from a problematization about the "transportation" of concepts applied to very different ethnographic realities, and then try, in a regime of successive approximations, to see what are the advantages and disadvantages of placing in the horizon of the upper Rio Negro a fund comparative like this. The way forward suggests that although a substantialist view comparing models of social organization is problematic, when viewed on the optics of a "method of relations," as thought in Indian kinship, hierarchy and system may reveal interesting contrasts on the two areas.
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