Comentario sobre el libro "El desafío poliamoroso, por una nueva política de los afectos" de Brigitte Vasallo

Abstract

This is a review of a recently published book whose reflective axis revolves around the affective and care networks that emerge from the LGBTTQI+ minorities. The reflection that emerges from these experiences challenges some theoretical and conceptual notions on which anthropology is based to analyze the alterities outside the hegemonic family model. The centering bias of analysts has become a distorting factor in approaching family and kinship models in non-Western societies. The new lenses brought to us by feminism, the sexual liberation movements of the 60's and dissident minorities allow us to make a revisionism of the inherited categories to analyze the family institution. And this is in turn an opportunity to reflect on the structuring incidence that a family model has on other spheres of life and social institutions, among which we can include not only inheritance and private property, but even nation-states.