L'âme et ses doubles : une introduction à la cosmopoétique Guarani Mbyá

Abstract

Ayvu Rapyta, the set of mythico-poetic texts of the Guarani Mbyá tradition, is a masterpiece for the understanding of Amerindian cosmologies, and its translations (including that of Pierre Clastres in Le grand parler) have given rise to enormous interpretative divergences. We present here a new French translation of one of these texts, along with an analytical-interpretive commentary, in order to highlight the interweaving of its poetic and anthropological aspects.

Keywords

• translation
• amerindian cosmologies
• Guarani
• ethno-poetry
• soul