Abstract

MOCTEZUMA YANO, Patricia. Familia patriarcal y trabajo artesano: una forma organizativa laboral sustentada en el parentesco. La ventana [online]. 2012, vol.4, n.36, pp.134-177. ISSN 1405-9436.

Patriarchal family has been a basic organizational structure for many handicraft workshops among the peasant villages in Mexico. From a micro-approach and anthropological view, this paper analyses the influence of two kinship cultural practices that take place in the transmission and organization of pottery production. This article compares how the patriliny and agnatic kinship principles operate in the learning of the occupation and generation of family workshop among the artisans of two legendary communities specialized in the elaboration of cook pots for Mexican traditional food. The masculinization of this occupation depends on different cultural issues and among them stand out the kinship principles like patriliny, heritage and residency, which are cultural practices that explain the predominance of the masculine figure in pottery production.

Keywords : patriliny kinship and labor organization; masculinization of the pottery handicraft.

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