La parenté mise à nu, ou Pandore chez les Bete de Côte d'Ivoire.

Abstract

J.-P. Dozon—Kinship Laid Bare, or Pandora among the Bete (Ivory Coast). This paper is based upon the analysis of a Bete etiological myth. It is a critical examination of an anthropological endeavour purporting to interpret social order. The myth takes apart the institutional forms of Bete society, especially those per-taining to kinship organisation, and reduces them to a representation of the origins of sexual difference. This process results in a kind of negative print of production and social division. Far from a dissolution within the integrative logic of a system-ic analysis (symbol and kinship Systems), this leads to an explicitation which maintains a distance between structure and dynamics, and between lineage organisation and segmentary or residential history. [pp. 101-110]