El poder de ordenar y el orden del poder: parentescos y testamentos

Abstract

Two decades after the publication of J. Casey’s “History of the Family” and J.L. Flandrin’s first synthesis on a wise introduction about practices and mentalities, not ot mention other previous attempts in the field of Anthropology as that of J. Goody (1986), we count today with numerous studies on culture and everyday-life practices, around the property and the domestic order inside families. By using such concepts, the historiography of the family in its transition to history everyday-life history, began to explore new sources. There are examples of works that have underlined the capacity of families to explain the cultural and social model of certain time. On continuing this path, the following pages are an attempt to penetrate into the familiar hierarchies microcosm which filled the household’s culture in a wide sense: A orderly-defined that, at the same time, generates a moral which legitimates the society’s own hierarchical structure. The legal structure of the family-heritage relations reproduced a certain culture of order. We are going to focus those who had the power of putting order in the family through the vocabulary they uses, a routine abstraction within a more complex reality.

Keywords

• gender
• Family
• power
• culture
• representations