TERRITORY AND TRIBUTARY SOCIETIES

Abstract

THESE ARE MY LETTERS, WAY OF LIFE
For a social group to vindicate in a territorial space, it is not only necessary that here exist relations between the segment of controlled nature and the group that intervenes on her, it is also necessary that these should be built among the members of the group through a process that has its place in an historic time and in a political and economical context that defines its space. More over the appropriation of nature supposes its control and use as much as in visible realities as in invisible powers that belong to them, which are as important as the former (Godelier 1990) The conceptual frame that implies a double proposal becomes patent in its most basic level through practices that generate forms of neighbourhood, residence, gender, generation and possession of nature. Work units are the product of these forms that interfere with each other, as if they were a complex net in the economic world, in the intrasocial Relative Units and in the socioterritorial neighbourhood units. The 3 types of units, in their relations, form the way of life of a group.