Genealogical Memory and Consanguineous Marriages Between Qoms of the Argentinean Chaco
In this article the author analyzes some aspects of the kinship system of the Toba people of the Argentinean Chaco. Specially, the author focuses on genealogical memory and consanguineous marriages. To achieve this goal, the author first analyzes her fieldwork material recorded between 2002 to the present in three communities located in Formosa Province, in the Argentinean Chaco: San Carlos, Santo Domingo and Riacho de Oro. The study of the consanguineous marriages that appear in the genealogies and in the histories of individuals and families, will allow her to demonstrate the existence of a matrilineal tendency in the memory of Toba men and Toba women.