The Death of a Strong, Great, Bad Man: An Ethnography Of Soul Incorporation.
The paper is a detailed description and interpretation of the death of a Yagwoia-Angan great killer-warrior and of two soul-incorporation rites performed in the period preceding the interment of the corpse. The interpretive framework is a synthesis of existential phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and a...
| Publicado en: | Oceania Vol. 73; no. 4; pp. 260 - 287 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2003
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| Sumario: | The paper is a detailed description and interpretation of the death of a Yagwoia-Angan great killer-warrior and of two soul-incorporation rites performed in the period preceding the interment of the corpse. The interpretive framework is a synthesis of existential phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and archetypal psychology articulated through the cosmo-ontological specificities of the Yagwoia life-world. The paper elucidates the dynamics and originality of the Yagwoia sense of the world as a self-generative bodily totality (world-body) which incessantly reproduces itself through its internal constitutive parts, individual humans and their group-containers. This dynamic is simultaneously self-devouring and self-copulating. Its most apposite characterisation is the archetypal image of ouroboros, the serpent that eats its own tail. Following the ontological clarifications of the Yagwoia-Angan life-world the main theme of the paper unfolds as a hermeneutic synthesis of concrete ethnographic descriptions and critical interpretations of the Yagwoia existential process made manifest in concrete experiences and practices of the living and the dead. |
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