Resumen

MILLAN, Saúl. The domestication of souls: Nahualism and its variations. Trace (Méx. DF) [online]. 2022, n.82, pp.12-40.  Epub 02-Dic-2022. ISSN 2007-2392.  https://doi.org/10.22134/trace.82.2022.839.

In Middleamerica, where the domestication of animals takes place only at the beginning of the colonial period, the links between the men and the spirits have been subject to a different process involving opposed conceptions about the animal world. Although these differences are relative, they allow to see two alternative ways of conceiving the nahualismo, whose functions are usually distributed between the depredation of the souls and the protection of men. Through the innovative world of livestock, the article examines these variations between different Mesoamerican peoples, in order to compare their differences and their similarities.

Palabras llave : nahualismo; shamanism; domestication; livestock; predation.