Le corps en transformation : représentation et conception du cadavre dans la pensée aztèque
This article offers a study of the practices and representations associated with dead bodies among the Aztec. Basing the analysis on ethnohistorical sources (codexes and chronicles), three successive points are broached: the iconographic conventions for the representation of corpses; the treatment o...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative
2014-07-01
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| Series: | Ateliers d'Anthropologie |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ateliers/9638 |
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| Summary: | This article offers a study of the practices and representations associated with dead bodies among the Aztec. Basing the analysis on ethnohistorical sources (codexes and chronicles), three successive points are broached: the iconographic conventions for the representation of corpses; the treatment of the body in different funeral rituals; extraordinary customs reserved for the remains of certain dead people (people who were sacrificed and woman who died giving birth). |
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| ISSN: | 2117-3869 |