Naturaleza, cuerpo y tarén en la sociedad originaria pemón

Abstract

For Greek civilization, the body represented an issue of beauty. For medieval Christianity, a source of abomination, that is, the sinful flesh imprisoning the soul. For Cartesian theorists, the body was a perfect machine. For the Pemon native people, body and soul, belong to Nature. Under the latter assumption and anchored in the theoretical and conceptual tools from studies that emphasize body anthropology and ethnography of orality, this essay is developed in order to have an approximation to the belief system of the Pemon people, who are conceptually linked to the body in its mythical connotations, ie the relationship between the trilogy: nature, body and mythology (shaman chants or taren).