Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - The Structure of the Possible in Tsimshian Myth: The Tribulations of Asdiwal
AU  - Lanoue G
Y1  - 1993
VL  - 31
IS  - 1-2
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 65
EP  - 76
KW  - Tsimshian
KW  - Northwest coast
KW  - Social organization
KW  - Matrilineality
KW  - Political self-definition
KW  - Ideology
KW  - Myth (Asdiwal)
KW  - Claude Lévi-Strauss
N2  - Les Tsimshian de la côte nord-ouest canadienne sont de culture matrilénaire. Cette matrilénéarité représentant apparement une inversion idéologique nécessaire d'importantes catégories socio-politiques, l'A. en conclut qu'elle n'est pas active dans le discours social. Elle est en relation avec les contradictions catégorielles appartenant à un système politique auto-défini qui est profondément local et corporatiste.
(La traduction unofficielle)
N2  - The Tsimshian of the northwest coast of Canada are described as matrilineal, but after arguins that matrilineality apparrently represents a necessary ideological inversion of important socio-political categories the author concludes that matrilineality is not an active term in social discourse. It is related to the categorical contradictions inherent in a system of political self-definition that is basically residential and incorporative. The myth of Asdiwal is examined to illustrate the point that myth in tribal society acts as a charter for action that deals with contingencies which are not anticipated in ideology.
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