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Larphay: el soplo corrosivo de los no-humanos y las transmutaciones de las personas.
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AIBR. Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana . May-Aug2018, Vol. 13 Issue 2, p253-273. 21p. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- This paper examines the Quechua concept of larphay. In the Ch'isikata Quechua language the positions of subject, action, and object are not stable: the subject person can be transformed and for that, the action of larphay is relevant. In this text I will explain the notion of larphay through the narration of tales about the relationship between humans and non-humans. In many tales the non-humans (animals, vegetables, and objects) are transformed into humans in order to seduce and deceive, or to larphay -- to unload his non-human condition into the human. The «larphayed» people have been transmuted into the tian (double) of the non-human. Similarly, humans in certain circumstances can transform into vegetable, animal, mineral entities, or non-human supra-beings. This is possible due to the lack of boundary definition -- chawpi -- which allows for this exchange between beings of diverse conditions (cay). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *QUECHUA language
*FAIRY tales
*VEGETABLES
*INDIGENOUS peoples
*ETHNIC groups
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Details
- Language :
- Spanish
- ISSN :
- 16959752
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- AIBR. Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 136133516
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.11156/aibr.130207