Un perro no nace, se hace. Relaciones entre grupos maipure-arawak y sus compañeros de caza
Some indigenous Maipure-Arawak groups of the Venezuelan Amazon maintain that a dog is not born but becomes a hunter, just as a child is not born but becomes a person, and both processes are possible thanks to the effort shared by all. Making a hunting dog involves the ingestion of pusanas – herbs re...
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Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
2021
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| Sumario: | Some indigenous Maipure-Arawak groups of the Venezuelan Amazon maintain that a dog is not born but becomes a hunter, just as a child is not born but becomes a person, and both processes are possible thanks to the effort shared by all. Making a hunting dog involves the ingestion of pusanas – herbs related and analogous to a certain animal – which, mixed with its liver, cause temporary blindness in the dog. This text proposes that such a rite of passage operates a change of gaze in the dog that allows him to transcend his own perspective and travel the human and non-human worlds, dreaming his fights with wild animals, or his own death. It is there, in this complex network of transfers and fluctuations between plants, humans and wild animals, where the role of the dog becomes essential, since by curing the dog, its owner becomes the owner of tamed wild animals at the same time. |
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