La disolución de la identidaduna perspectiva maya contemporánea

  1. Pedro Pitarch 1
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR 02p0gd045

Journal:
Anales del Museo Nacional de Antropología

ISSN: 1135-1853

Year of publication: 2016

Issue Title: Etnografías de la muerte en América Latina

Issue: 18

Pages: 10-18

Type: Article

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Abstract

In contrast to Western Christian ideas which assign a posthumous eternal identity to the dead person, the Maya-Tzeltal people of Chiapas, Mexico imagine death as the dissolution of individual identity. On being born the fetus folds in on her capturing fragments of the Other side (the souls). At body’s demise, the moment of unfolding, these souls are restored to the Other side and the body disappears.

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