Eating (with) the Dead: Food Offerings of Todos los Santos and the Logic of Commensality Between the Living and the Dead in the Sierra of Puebla

On the basis of ethnographic data collected among the Nahua of the Northern Sierra of Puebla, I try to understand the logic that inspires the composition, form, and quantity of the offerings as well as the content of the ritual words addressed to the deceased in Todos los Santos. The mortuary symbol...

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Autor: Lupo, Alessandro
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Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:México
Recursos:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl
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Palavra-chave:Todos los Santos
ofrendas rituales
comensalía
antropofagia simbólica
Nahuas
Sierra de Puebla
ritual offerings
commensality
symbolic anthropophagy
Nahua
Sierra of Puebla
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spelling Eating (with) the Dead: Food Offerings of Todos los Santos and the Logic of Commensality Between the Living and the Dead in the Sierra of PueblaComer (con) los difuntos: las ofrendas comestibles de Todos los Santos y las lógicas de la comensalía entre vivos y muertos en la Sierra de Puebla Lupo, AlessandroTodos los Santosofrendas ritualescomensalíaantropofagia simbólicaNahuasSierra de PueblaTodos los Santosritual offeringscommensalitysymbolic anthropophagyNahuaSierra of PueblaOn the basis of ethnographic data collected among the Nahua of the Northern Sierra of Puebla, I try to understand the logic that inspires the composition, form, and quantity of the offerings as well as the content of the ritual words addressed to the deceased in Todos los Santos. The mortuary symbolism of the types of food arranged on the altars reveals its latent anthropophagical meaning and demonstrates that the entire celebration is essentially structured according to the principle of reciprocity, and aims to satisfying the appetites of the deceased, in order to prevent them from diverting their hunger towards the living. The temporal sequence according to which the various ritual agents eat the food offerings brings to light the various ways in which the living and the dead eat each other’s representations.A partir de los datos etnográficos recogidos entre los nahuas de la Sierra Norte de Puebla, se intenta comprender la lógica que inspira la composición, forma y cantidad de las ofrendas y el contenido de las palabras rituales dirigidas a los difuntos en Todos los Santos; el simbolismo mortuorio de las comidas dispuestas sobre los altares revela venas antropofágicas latentes y demuestra que toda la celebración se estructura con base en el principio de reciprocidad, siendo orientada a satisfacer los apetitos de los difuntos, con el fin de evitar que éstos puedan desviar sus ansias hacia los vivos. La secuencia temporal según la cual los diversos protagonistas de la acción ritual consumen los alimentos permite poner de manifiesto el sentido de las diversas formas en que vivos y muertos comen unos las representaciones de los otros.Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas2019-07-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://nahuatl.historicas.unam.mx/index.php/ecn/article/view/77889Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl; Vol. 58 (2019); 223-2640071-1675reponame:Estudios de Cultura Náhuatlinstname:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICOinstacron:UNAMspahttps://nahuatl.historicas.unam.mx/index.php/ecn/article/view/77889/68940Derechos de autor 2021 Estudios de Cultura Náhuatlhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.esinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/778892024-08-16T17:18:43Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Eating (with) the Dead: Food Offerings of Todos los Santos and the Logic of Commensality Between the Living and the Dead in the Sierra of Puebla
Comer (con) los difuntos: las ofrendas comestibles de Todos los Santos y las lógicas de la comensalía entre vivos y muertos en la Sierra de Puebla
title Eating (with) the Dead: Food Offerings of Todos los Santos and the Logic of Commensality Between the Living and the Dead in the Sierra of Puebla
spellingShingle Eating (with) the Dead: Food Offerings of Todos los Santos and the Logic of Commensality Between the Living and the Dead in the Sierra of Puebla
Lupo, Alessandro
Todos los Santos
ofrendas rituales
comensalía
antropofagia simbólica
Nahuas
Sierra de Puebla
Todos los Santos
ritual offerings
commensality
symbolic anthropophagy
Nahua
Sierra of Puebla
title_short Eating (with) the Dead: Food Offerings of Todos los Santos and the Logic of Commensality Between the Living and the Dead in the Sierra of Puebla
title_full Eating (with) the Dead: Food Offerings of Todos los Santos and the Logic of Commensality Between the Living and the Dead in the Sierra of Puebla
title_fullStr Eating (with) the Dead: Food Offerings of Todos los Santos and the Logic of Commensality Between the Living and the Dead in the Sierra of Puebla
title_full_unstemmed Eating (with) the Dead: Food Offerings of Todos los Santos and the Logic of Commensality Between the Living and the Dead in the Sierra of Puebla
title_sort Eating (with) the Dead: Food Offerings of Todos los Santos and the Logic of Commensality Between the Living and the Dead in the Sierra of Puebla
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Lupo, Alessandro
author Lupo, Alessandro
author_facet Lupo, Alessandro
author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Todos los Santos
ofrendas rituales
comensalía
antropofagia simbólica
Nahuas
Sierra de Puebla
Todos los Santos
ritual offerings
commensality
symbolic anthropophagy
Nahua
Sierra of Puebla
topic Todos los Santos
ofrendas rituales
comensalía
antropofagia simbólica
Nahuas
Sierra de Puebla
Todos los Santos
ritual offerings
commensality
symbolic anthropophagy
Nahua
Sierra of Puebla
description On the basis of ethnographic data collected among the Nahua of the Northern Sierra of Puebla, I try to understand the logic that inspires the composition, form, and quantity of the offerings as well as the content of the ritual words addressed to the deceased in Todos los Santos. The mortuary symbolism of the types of food arranged on the altars reveals its latent anthropophagical meaning and demonstrates that the entire celebration is essentially structured according to the principle of reciprocity, and aims to satisfying the appetites of the deceased, in order to prevent them from diverting their hunger towards the living. The temporal sequence according to which the various ritual agents eat the food offerings brings to light the various ways in which the living and the dead eat each other’s representations.
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