Mesoamerica: The Two Maya Bodies - An Elementary Model Of Tzeltal Personhood

Mesoamerica: The Two Maya Bodies - An Elementary Model Of Tzeltal Personhood Pedro Pitarch, 2011   The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the indigenous Maya-Tzeltal distinction between two types of human bodies: a carnal body, shared with animals, and a specifically human phenomenological body. This distinction, in turn, is equivalent to the indigenous distinction between two souls: a soul in a human shape and a soul in a non-human shape, generally that of an animal species. The...

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