Abstract
This article discusses modes of affiliation in the contemporary French family on the basis of a study of memory of forebears. Descent is shown to be transformed by individualism while remaining an essential symbolic reference. Hardly comparable to a kinship group, the line is tending to become a matter for personal imagination, and the values of assignation and autonomy have to accommodate one another. Such accommodation seems a strong characteristic of kindred systems.
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