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      Los dos cuerpos mayas: Esbozo de una antropología elemental indígena Translated title: The two Maya bodies: An outline for an indigenous elemental Anthropology

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          El propósito de este artículo es llamar la atención sobre la distinción indígena maya de dos clases de cuerpos humanos: uno carnal compartido con los animales y uno fenoménico específico de los seres humanos. Esta distinción resulta a su vez análoga a las dos clases de almas indígenas: una con la forma del cuerpo y otra con figura no humana, generalmente de algún animal. Semejante paralelismo entre cuerpos y almas me lleva a proponer una reorganización del concepto de persona en términos de un modelo cuaternario. Éste, sin dejar de ser fundamentalmente binario (cuerpo/alma), debe permitir integrar elementos que, como los dos cuerpos por una parte, y las dos almas por otra, se distinguen tanto como se requieren mutuamente para llegar a constituir la persona.

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          The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the indigenous Maya distinction between two types of human bodies: a carnal body, shared with animals, and a specifically human phenomenic body. This distinction, in turn, is equivalent to the indigenous distinction between two souls: a soul in a human shape and a soul in a non-human shape, generally of an animal species. The parallelism between bodies and souls leads me to propose a reorganization of the Mesoamerican concept of person in terms of a quaternary model which remains essentially binary (body/soul), yet permits the integration of elements which are different to each other, like the two bodies and the two souls, and yet mutually necessary to make up the person.

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                Journal
                ecm
                Estudios de cultura maya
                Estud. cult. maya
                Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas (Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico )
                0185-2574
                2011
                : 37
                : 149-178
                Affiliations
                [01] orgnameUniversidad Complutense de Madrid petul@ 123456telefonica.net
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                S0185-25742011000100006 S0185-2574(11)03700000006
                12bdc3dc-182e-4c87-b818-9da3bdbda4f7

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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                : 11 November 2011
                : 02 August 2010
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                personhood,Mesoamérica,mayas,tzeltales,ontología,persona,cuerpo,Mesoamerica,Mayas,Tzeltal,Ontology,body

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