На кога личе деца: сродство код Срба и принципи перцепције сличности међу сродницима
Who do Children take after: Serbian Kinship and Principles of Perceiving the Resemblance between Kins

Author(s): Zorica Ivanović
Subject(s): Culture and social structure , Family and social welfare
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Summary/Abstract: Contemporary anthropological research show that an understanding of the body and personality characteristics including perceptions of their origin and means of their transmission is to be seen as an integral part of the structure of a kinship system. This article is concerned with the question of the use of the body and identity of a child in the process of managing power relations within the traditional and the modern Serbian kinship systems. It examines principles that regulate the perception of physical and psychological resemblance between children and their parents and other kins as well as rules that shape the choice of a name. The aim of exploring ideas about the origin and ways of transmitting phisical and personality characteristics of children is to gain the insight into complex relationships between different aspects of the kinship system and to unravel the mechanisms of its transformation or continuity.

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