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MACHADO, Igor José de Renó. Kinship and Differentialities: Alternatives to Identity and to Ethnic Frontiers in The Study of Migrations. in: Vibrant – Virtual Brazilian Anthropology, v. 8, n.2. July to December 2011. Brasília, ABA. Available at http://www.vibrant.org.br/issues/v8n2/igor-jose-de-reno-machado-kinship-and-differentialities/

Abstract

Based on work undertaken by the Laboratory of Migratory Studies, focused on research in the Valadares region of Minas Gerais State and on studies about the Japanese presence in Brazil, I sought to discuss alternatives to approaches that focus on the binomial identity-ethnic borders. The development of another perspective, critical of the concept of identity, arose at the interlacing of the relationships between migration and kinship with a perspective influenced by the work of Tim Ingold.

Keywords: migration; Japanese; kinship

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A partir do trabalho desenvolvido no grupo de pesquisa do LEM (Laboratório de Estudos Migratórios), focado nas pesquisas na região de Valadares e em pesquisas sobre a presença japonesa no Brasil, procuro discutir alternativas às abordagens focadas no binômio identidade/Fronteiras étnicas. O desenvolvimento de outra perspectiva surge no entrelaçamento das relações entre migração e parentesco

Keywords: migração; japoneses; parentesco