%0 Journal Article
%T Los dos cuerpos mayas: Esbozo de una antropolog¨ªa elemental ind¨ªgena
%A Pitarch
%A Pedro
%J Estudios de cultura maya
%D 2011
%I UNAM, Instituto de Investigaciones Filol¨®gicas
%X 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.
%K body
%K personhood
%K ontology
%K tzeltal
%K mayas
%K mesoamerica.
%U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0185-25742011000100006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en