ABSTRACT
This chapter examines one quadrant of Descola's ethnological paradigm, and not to explain the whole fourfold model. In totality, the model daringly claims to provide theorized niches for all anthropologically known systems for organizing cognition. Our immediate purpose, however, is to see how Descola's notion of "analogy" clarifies Rapaz's view of the sociable universe. In Descola's reading, totemism, like naturalism, is "mononatural": it perceives everything as existing within a single domain made of matter. But unlike naturalism, totemism attributes a characteristic cluster of interior as well as physical traits to each sort of entities in that domain. Among the analogies that organize Rapaz, perhaps the most pervasive is the one likening male and female gender to production and distribution, respectively. It is very much the kind of thing Descola's model predicts, and it matters greatly to Andean studies for specific reasons.
