Muodonmuutoksia ja näkymättömiä yhteyksiä

Yine-lasten syntymään liittyvät rajoitukset Itä-Perussa

Authors

• Minna Opas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30666/elore.78457

Abstract

This article discusses pre- and post-natal rituals and restrictions among the Yine of Peruvian Amazonia. The observations are based on my fieldwork in one Yine community in Eastern Peru in the years 2000 and 2003. The article illustrates how birth-related restrictions adhered to by Yine parents correspond to wider cosmological principles that are manifested in other spheres of their life as well. These cosmological principles are approached from the point of view of Amerindian perspectivism. The two main principles highlighted here are transformation and mutation and that of linkages between persons and different items or objects. Transformations may take place not only in the context of birth but also in the interaction with different spiritual or corporeal beings. In a similar manner, linkages through which different subjects or objects affect each other may form not only between parents and children but also e.g. between hunter and his equipment, or a person and his clothes or other belongings.