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Andrée Grau, « A quality of being: embodied kinship among the Tiwi of Northern Australia », Les actes de colloques du musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac, ID : 10.4000/actesbranly.563
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Setting the scene Thirty years ago, almost exactly, I argued in my PhD thesis that, among the Tiwi, dance was kinship-in-action, not so much because it reflected kinship practices in other social domains - which it did - but because I observed on the dance floor kinship relationships being explored and new ones being generated. As I put it then ‘the kinship dances are not models of, but rather models for kinship practices’ (Grau 1983: 333). The anthropologist Jane Goodale coined the term ‘kin...