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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Autor principal:	María Vutova
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Publicado:	Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2021
Materias:	Amazon Maipure-Arawak dog pusana dreams Anthropology GN1-890 Latin America. Spanish America F1201-3799
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:78a8449f0865435a8d8b8808453e220b2021-12-02T10:38:49ZUn perro no nace, se hace. Relaciones entre grupos maipure-arawak y sus compañeros de caza1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.85055https://doaj.org/article/78a8449f0865435a8d8b8808453e220b2021-06-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/85055https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252Some 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.María VutovaCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsarticleAmazonMaipure-ArawakdogpusanadreamsAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2021)
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description	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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title	Un perro no nace, se hace. Relaciones entre grupos maipure-arawak y sus compañeros de caza
title_short	Un perro no nace, se hace. Relaciones entre grupos maipure-arawak y sus compañeros de caza
title_full	Un perro no nace, se hace. Relaciones entre grupos maipure-arawak y sus compañeros de caza
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