INVESTIGADORES
TOLA Florencia Carmen
capítulos de libros
Título:
The materiality of spiritual presences and the notion of person in an Amerindian society
Autor/es:
TOLA FLORENCIA
Libro:
The social life of spirits
Editorial:
Chicago University Press
Referencias:
Lugar: Chicago; Año: 2013; p. 69 - 92
Resumen:
In this article, I intend to examine how indigenous people of the Argentinean Chaco are related to a series of non-human entities (shamanic companions, dead people, owners of the species, etc.). Far from considering them as spirits or Gods, the Toba people conceive them as persons (shiŷaxaua) that coexist with human people. The social life and the corporal aptitudes of non-human entities are some of the attributes qualifying them as real persons. In particular, I explore the coexistence between humans and non-human beings by analyzing the effects that non-human entities produce in space, in the human body and shamanic subjectivity.
