Faire corps, ou comment faire du collectif en singularisant. L'exemple des ressemblances familiales

Abstract

As products of social relations, resemblances within
families are affirmed through their immanent, processual and
intersubjective character. A plurality of bodily processes and
enactments are mobilized: techniques of the body, forms of
mimesis, the embodiment of material culture and a shared sen?
sory environment in the expressive performance both of the
self and others through family narratives and imagery. All these
enactments allow for plural identifications according to context.
Ethnographic fieldwork conducted both in Rome and Warsaw
demonstrates the extent to which family likenesses enable peo?
ple to be and to act as one, modifying and regulating the tension
between collective belongings, reciprocal actions and the cre?
ation of unique persons.