El parentesco ático y magrebí en el horizonte de la modernidadDiálogo con Enric Porqueres

Abstract

In the middle of the debate of postmodern kinship and the issue of “blood”, we will analyze two historical cases, in a dialogue with Enric Porqueres, who studied historical kinships, as well as the new reproduction techniques and their anthopological consecuences. On one side, we will study the affiliation in Ancient Greece and its malleability, especially in the Archaic Epoc. We will look upon divine parthogenesis, the birth of twins and the cases of Sparta and Attica, where it can be found an evolution towards rigid affiliation as consecuence of democratic burocracy. On the other side, we will study Modern Morocco, where the segmentary tribal kinship of “arabic” type, based in the ‘asabiyya, has evolved into a puritan system, controled by the State as a demographic policy. This has also caused a restriction of the old sexual diversity and freedom and a reinforcement of masculine heterosexual authority. By doing so, we will contemplate the two paths of kinship in the times of postmodernity and the new assisted reproduction techniques: the turn into a polyhedral affiliation or the return into ultraconservative models