Nombre, linaje, parientes: usos y sentidos de las categorías de parentesco entre las personas que buscan sus orígenes en Argentina

Abstract

Based on research conducted between 2010 and 2016 with activists seeking their origins in Argentina, this article analyzes the meanings and uses they make of their first and last names, and the ways in which they refer to their foster families. In this respect, it seeks to contribute to anthropological debates on the nomenclature of kinship, parentage, and connectivity relations. The hypothesis of this article maintains that the modification of the name or surname can be conceptualized as a rectifying practice tending to the affirmation of the agency itself with respect to the construction of personal identity. Although this de-registration of lineage by using alternative names or surnames does not materialize in personal documents, it affects other spheres of social life, in which these people are recognized by the new names

Keywords

• argentina
• identity
• kinship
• name