La enfermedad de todos en el cuerpo propio: brujería y performatividad del tribunal de la raza indígena en Chiloé
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Instituto de Estudios Humanísticos Juan Ignacio Molina. Universidad de Talca
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Discursos dieron forma e hicieron real la asociación de brujos Tribunal de la Raza Indígena, también llamada Recta Provincia, en Chiloé a fines del siglo diecinueve. Tales discursos, recogidos en las actas del proceso judicial realizado contra individuos que fueron señalados como brujos en Chiloé en 1880, presuponen la distinción entre una dimensión inmanente y una dimensión transcendente del mundo, y una comprensión del cosmos como estando gobernado por la forma de la reciprocidad. La desilusión de las expectativas de reciprocidad en las cuales se sostenía el sistema social se podía manifestar como enfermedad en los cuerpos de los individuos. Esto daba lugar a la utilización de técnicas mágicas y de adivinación para compensar, por medio de la venganza, el quiebre de expectativas normativas de comportamiento.
Palabras clave: Magia, brujería, pensamiento tradicional, cosmovisión, performatividad, Teoría de sistemas, Chiloé.
ABSTRACT The records of the legal process undertaken against individuals that were signaled as practitioners of witchcraft in Chiloé at the end of the nineteenth century give account of discourses that, by sustaining a world in which its existence is plausible, created and realized an association of witchcraft, called Tribunal de la Raza Indígena, also known as the Recta Provincia. These discourses presuppose a distinction between an immanent and a transcendental dimension of the world, and a cosmos governed by laws of reciprocity. The Tribunal de la Raza Indígena, as it appears in these records, may be understood as an association of witches that used magical and divinatory techniques to compensate, through vengeance, episodes of violation of normative behavioral expectations that characterize reciprocal social relations. Such episodes were manifested in the form of sickness in the bodies of individuals. This gave way to the use of magical and divinatory techniques to compensate, through vengeance, the rupture of normative expectations of behavior. Keywords: Magic, witchcraft, traditional thought, world view, performativity, systems theory, Chiloé.
ABSTRACT The records of the legal process undertaken against individuals that were signaled as practitioners of witchcraft in Chiloé at the end of the nineteenth century give account of discourses that, by sustaining a world in which its existence is plausible, created and realized an association of witchcraft, called Tribunal de la Raza Indígena, also known as the Recta Provincia. These discourses presuppose a distinction between an immanent and a transcendental dimension of the world, and a cosmos governed by laws of reciprocity. The Tribunal de la Raza Indígena, as it appears in these records, may be understood as an association of witches that used magical and divinatory techniques to compensate, through vengeance, episodes of violation of normative behavioral expectations that characterize reciprocal social relations. Such episodes were manifested in the form of sickness in the bodies of individuals. This gave way to the use of magical and divinatory techniques to compensate, through vengeance, the rupture of normative expectations of behavior. Keywords: Magic, witchcraft, traditional thought, world view, performativity, systems theory, Chiloé.
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Magia, brujería, pensamiento tradicional, cosmovisión, performatividad, Teoría de sistemas, Chiloé.
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Universum vol.29 no.1 Talca 2014