2024
DOI: 10.3167/saas.2024.022001
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Laziness and Stinginess

Olivier Allard

Abstract: Care, in lowland South America, is an ethical practice that is constitutive of kinship relations. Drawing on the case of the Warao, an indigenous people of Venezuela, I complicate this link between care and kinship in two interrelated ways: first, by focusing on the impossibility of perfect care (the particularising orientation of care makes neglect inevitable); and second, by acknowledging that kinship must not only be made, but also unmade. Both strands of this argument contribute to an effort to show that t… Show more

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