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How Households Are Made: Marriage, Independence, and Productivity on the Island of Apiao, Chiloé

2018; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-319-91983-6_7

2365-7553

Giovanna Bacchiddu,

Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies

This chapter offers an ethnographic overview of agricultural households on the rural island of Apiao, Chiloé. Based on field research in Apiao carried out over 15 years, I describe how residents of the island learn and perform their everyday duties and their role in the family household from a young age. I document a young couple’s different phases of marriage, showing how they slowly separate themselves from their parents’ households to become independent, productive units, and synchronize their lives to the island’s agricultural cycle. Individuals are valued for their ability to turn their work into productivity, and their household into an independent, autonomous unit.