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That helps explain why the partible "dividual" has become a regular figure of kinship studies as well as an icon of the premodern subj ect. It appears that we have been staring for too long at ego­ centered-cum-egocentric, kinship diagrams. The problem here is not just the category mistake of rendering the relationships of kinship as the attributes of singular persons. The problem is that kin persons are not the only kind who are multiple, divis­ ible, and relationally constructed. In this connection, not enough attention has been paid to Alan Rumsey's ( 2ooo ) demonstra­ tion-following E mile Benveniste (1971) and Greg Urban (1989) on the meaning and use of personal pronouns-that the capaci­ ties of partibility and hierarchy (or the encompassment of oth­ ers) are general conditions of humans in language.

A similarly telling semantics of common being is conveyed by the pronouns affixed to kinship terms in New Caledonia, thereby making the possessed person appear "an integral part of the possessor" (Leenhardt 1979 , IJ). " As they write, "The belonging produced by kinship has, for these people, a whole further dimension to it" (2ooo, 153). Persons in Alltown may have a sense of common belonging through what belongs to them, but "families consider themselves as people who belong to one another" (150) .

In mentioning a fight that occurred possibly ten generations ago he will say: "I defeated the enemy there," mentioning the name of the [enemy] tribe. In like manner he will carelessly indicate ten thousand acres of land with a 36 Chapter One Similar forms of the "kinship I" have been reported for Fiji, New Guinea, Central Africa, and Northwest America. Franz Boas recorded the like from a Kwakiutl noble boasting of the marital and feasting feats of his great-grandfather, the ancestor of his house (numaym): Therefore I am known by all the tribes all over the world, and only the chief my ancestor gave away property in a great feast, and there­ fore they try to imitate me.

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