¿A dónde van los muertos?: las crisis de la muerte y las geografías sagradas en el esquema tripartito de los ritos de paso

Within funerary archaeology, contemporary studies on death rites have promoted a series of conceptual needs to understand the commemoration of death and its impact on human sociability from new perspectives. The purpose of this article is to propose a conceptual discussion to study the tripartite st...

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Main Author: Juan Pablo Ospina Herrera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá) 2022-10-01
Series:Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología
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Online Access:https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/doi/full/10.7440/antipoda49.2022.04
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description Within funerary archaeology, contemporary studies on death rites have promoted a series of conceptual needs to understand the commemoration of death and its impact on human sociability from new perspectives. The purpose of this article is to propose a conceptual discussion to study the tripartite structure of death rites, and to explore the way in which places of aggregation become sacred geographies to redefine the role of the dead. To this end, concepts structured within the ritual theory are discussed and integrated into a set of ethnographic data compiled from secondary sources on the nukak makú of the Colombian Amazon. The discussion consolidates a series of conceptual and interpretative contributions to understand, based on a perspective of funerary archaeology, how funerary rites are structured and how they can transform the critical and ambiguous status of the dead, by creating sacred geographies of reintegration. The study articulates anthropological and archaeological concepts that enhance the analysis of aspects little explored in Latin American funerary archaeology. These include the relationship between the crises of death, the physiognomy of rites, and the construction of ritualized geographies, operating not only in the physical world, but also in the realm of ideas.
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spelling doaj.art-265b704c288a4d5d83285a93b8cf294f2022-12-22T04:38:11ZengUniversidad de los Andes (Bogotá)Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología2011-42731900-54072022-10-01499110910.7440/antipoda49.2022.04¿A dónde van los muertos?: las crisis de la muerte y las geografías sagradas en el esquema tripartito de los ritos de pasoJuan Pablo Ospina Herrera0Universidad Externado de ColombiaWithin funerary archaeology, contemporary studies on death rites have promoted a series of conceptual needs to understand the commemoration of death and its impact on human sociability from new perspectives. The purpose of this article is to propose a conceptual discussion to study the tripartite structure of death rites, and to explore the way in which places of aggregation become sacred geographies to redefine the role of the dead. To this end, concepts structured within the ritual theory are discussed and integrated into a set of ethnographic data compiled from secondary sources on the nukak makú of the Colombian Amazon. The discussion consolidates a series of conceptual and interpretative contributions to understand, based on a perspective of funerary archaeology, how funerary rites are structured and how they can transform the critical and ambiguous status of the dead, by creating sacred geographies of reintegration. The study articulates anthropological and archaeological concepts that enhance the analysis of aspects little explored in Latin American funerary archaeology. These include the relationship between the crises of death, the physiognomy of rites, and the construction of ritualized geographies, operating not only in the physical world, but also in the realm of ideas.https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/doi/full/10.7440/antipoda49.2022.04archaeology of death and burialdeathmortuary ritualsrites of passageritual theorysacred geographies
spellingShingle Juan Pablo Ospina Herrera
¿A dónde van los muertos?: las crisis de la muerte y las geografías sagradas en el esquema tripartito de los ritos de paso
Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología
archaeology of death and burial
death
mortuary rituals
rites of passage
ritual theory
sacred geographies
title ¿A dónde van los muertos?: las crisis de la muerte y las geografías sagradas en el esquema tripartito de los ritos de paso
title_full ¿A dónde van los muertos?: las crisis de la muerte y las geografías sagradas en el esquema tripartito de los ritos de paso
title_fullStr ¿A dónde van los muertos?: las crisis de la muerte y las geografías sagradas en el esquema tripartito de los ritos de paso
title_full_unstemmed ¿A dónde van los muertos?: las crisis de la muerte y las geografías sagradas en el esquema tripartito de los ritos de paso
title_short ¿A dónde van los muertos?: las crisis de la muerte y las geografías sagradas en el esquema tripartito de los ritos de paso
title_sort a donde van los muertos las crisis de la muerte y las geografias sagradas en el esquema tripartito de los ritos de paso
topic archaeology of death and burial
death
mortuary rituals
rites of passage
ritual theory
sacred geographies
url https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/doi/full/10.7440/antipoda49.2022.04
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