Abstract

NEURATH, Johannes. Alteridad constituyente y relaciones de tránsito en el ritual huichol: iniciación, anti-iniciación y alianza. Cuicuilco [online]. 2008, vol.15, n.42, pp.29-44. ISSN 0185-1659.

This essay discusses Huichol concepts of life and personhood in the context of transformational ritual relations: shamanic initiation (transformation into an ancestor), what I call "anti-initiation" (transformation into a Mestizo), and the "supernatural" alliance between humans and corn (the basis of humanity). Parting from a critique of symmetric dualism in world-view-studies, emphasis is put on all kind of discontinuities, ambiguities, epistemological brakes, and, above all, "dividuality".

Keywords : life; personhood; dividuality; ritual; initiation; alliance; Huichols.