Tecendo o mundo e as origens da vida como a conhecemos: noções de crescimento, fabricação e reprodução nos mitos de origem yukpa
Tecendo o mundo e as origens da vida como a conhecemos: noções de crescimento, fabricação e reprodução nos mitos de origem yukpa
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世界的原理和生活的起源和联系:渐进、制作和复制的过程
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2016
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Ernst Halbmayer
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Ernst Halbmayer
This paper deals with the meaning of life among the Yukpa as depicted and verbalized in their origin myths. Yukpa myths transmit particularly conceptualized knowledge about life-processes, partly conceptualized as skilled craftsmanship, and transformations that create the conditions and forms of life as we know it. By focusing on the processes that create life as it is known today the life-processes of growing, fabricating and reproducing are identified and differentiated. It is argued that life-processes among the Yukpa go beyond a biological self-referential reproduction of different species and instrumental activities of fabrication. Life is conceptualized both spatially as continuing localized relational activity and as metamorphical cyclical transformation. From the localized perspective to leave or disappear from a relational activity are forms of dying or being born. Life in its metamorphical sense includes ongoing existence in co-existing worlds. A definite end of life will on