La mitad del mundo : cuerpo y cosmos en los rituales otomíes / Jacques Galinier ; prefacio de Alfredo López Austin.
The World Below is the result of a long-term field-research started in 1969 among the Otomies of Mexico¿s Huaxteca region. The central theme of this book is the analysis of the correspondences that exist between the conception of ritual acts, the image of the body and the world view of the Otomi peo...
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| Other title: | Cuerpo y cosmos en los rituales otomíes. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Ciudad de México : Tenango de Doria :
UNAM, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas : Centro de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos ; UICEH, Universidad Intercultural del Estado de Hidalgo,
2018.
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| Edition: | Segunda edición. |
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| Summary: | The World Below is the result of a long-term field-research started in 1969 among the Otomies of Mexico¿s Huaxteca region. The central theme of this book is the analysis of the correspondences that exist between the conception of ritual acts, the image of the body and the world view of the Otomi people who live in the south of the Huasteca. Concentration on iconography,symbolism. In its beginnings, this research sought to solve an enigma: why the ritual organization of the Otomies is divided into two strictly separate sectors, one that corresponds to the Catholic tradition, and the one of indigenous origin, largely hidden in the privacy of the oratories, the sanctuaries and the hills? Why have they rejected syncretism? Discreetly, the historical data reveal the existence, since the Colony, of a device of camouflage that allowed to hide until our time a set of rites of pre-Hispanic origin. |
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| Item Description: | Includes glossary. |
| Physical Description: | 694 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 667-694) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9786078548170 6078548174 9782111516885 2111516880 9786073004282 6073004281 |