Other Worlds, Underwater Cities: A Proposal for the Ontological Characterization of Indigenous Alterity Worlds in Mesoamerica
Through a review of the Mesoamerican ethnographic literature and the author’s own field data, this article proposes a characterization of indigenous “other worlds” or “worlds of otherness”, highlighting certain ontological aspects that defy conventional conceptualizations elaborated both by ethnogra...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/78139 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://nahuatl.historicas.unam.mx/index.php/ecn/article/view/78139 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | mundos otros inframundos cosmografía cosmología ontología chamanismo nahuas Mesoamérica other-worlds underworlds cosmography cosmology ontology shamanism Nahuas |
| Sumario: | Through a review of the Mesoamerican ethnographic literature and the author’s own field data, this article proposes a characterization of indigenous “other worlds” or “worlds of otherness”, highlighting certain ontological aspects that defy conventional conceptualizations elaborated both by ethnography and ethnohistory. Starting from a problematization of the apparent instabilities, ambiguities or contradictions that show through in ethnographic data, and inquiring from what perspective they are not, a series of concepts are proposed aimed to rethink the definition of worlds of alterity: geographic indefinition, ontological continuums, fractal nature, and iterative structure, while questioning the uncritical use of the term “underworld”. |
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