The World Below

Body and Cosmos in Otomí Indian Ritual

Jacques Galinier (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

271 Seiten

2004
University Press of Colorado (Verlag)
978-0-87081-772-4 (ISBN)

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In The World Below, Jacques Galinier surveys both traditional Otomi cosmology and colonial and contemporary Catholic rituals to illustrate the complexity of continuity and change in Mesoamerican religious ideology and practice. Galinier explores the problems of historical and family memory, models of space and time, the role of the human habitation in cosmology, shamanism and healing, and much more. He elucidates the way these realities are represented in a series of arresting oppositions - both Otomi oppositions and the duality of indigenous and Catholic ritual life - between the upper and lower human body. Drawing upon both Freud and theories of the carnivalesque, Galinier argues that the "world below" (the lower half of the body) provides the foundation for an indigenous metapsychology that is at once very close to and very far away from the Freudian conceptual apparatus.

Jacques Galinier is research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique's Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative, Universite Paris X. Howard Scott and Phyllis Aronoff are the award-winning translators of Gilles Havard's The Great Peace of Montreal (McGill-Queen's University Press).

Übersetzer	Howard Scott, Phyllis Aronoff
Verlagsort	Colorado
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-87081-772-8 / 0870817728
ISBN-13	978-0-87081-772-4 / 9780870817724
Zustand	Neuware