Alejandro Vázquez Estrada
Eva Natalia Fernández
Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, México
Abstract:
Can we think about kinship beyond human beings? Beyond marriage, reproduction, and consanguinity? These questions guide this text. Drawing on the de-anthropic turn, we reflect upon the need to view family and kinship beyond anthropocentrism. This article aims to delve into the need to think about the human from the lens of alliances, partnerships, and becomings along with other species. Based on the analysis of a visual exercise, carried out with university students, we put forward de-anthropic genealogies as complex systems of life organization, transition, and movement highlighting exchange and bonding. In the exercises under study, we observed the presence of dogs as a strong partnership mode involving emotion, intensity, and closeness enduring and transforming itself over time just like family bonds.
Keywords: kinship, families, de-anthropic genealogies, dogs, visual analysis.
