The Maturation of the Bodies and the Cosmos – Myth, Ritual and Person Ticuna

Authors

  • Edson Tosta Matarezio Filho Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2017.132073

Keywords:

Ticuna, Body, Territory, Myth, Ritual

Abstract

This article aims to show some relationships that Ticuna established between “body” and “territory”. Therefore, I analyze the notion of na’ane, we can roughly translate as cosmos / world / land / garden. This term also evokes notions of time, but rather maintains a relationship with the body ticuna, in particular, the body being formed. It seems that ticuna cosmogony dates stages of sexual maturation of bodies in myths and it is reproduced in people’s bodies. The focus of this article will be the relations of the world still called «green» (do’ü) with the body of the girls who pass through the female initiation ritual, the “Festa da Moça Nova”. In these relationships between the body and the cosmos, some issues come to the fore, as incest, blood, hair, astronomical periodicities and the bodies of the girls.

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Published

2017-05-12

Issue

Vol. 60 No. 1 (2017)

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How to Cite

Matarezio Filho, E. T. (2017). The Maturation of the Bodies and the Cosmos – Myth, Ritual and Person Ticuna. Revista De Antropologia, 60(1), 193-215. https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2017.132073