Antípoda. Revista de Antropología y Arqueología

Antipod. Rev. Antropol. Arqueol | eISSN 2011-4273 | ISSN 1900-5407

“Vivir las ideas, idear la vida“: adversity, suicide and flexibility in the ethos of the embera and wounaan peoples of Riosucio, Colombia

No. 6 (2008-01-01)
  • Rodrigo Iván Sepúlveda López de Mesa
https://doi.org/10.7440/antipoda6.2008.12

Abstract

Suicide among natives, allows understanding mental illness as a saturation of adversity; the experience of a place in the world strangled by a cultural ethos immersed in violence, leads to suicide as a rite of passage towards reverie life. In this sense, therapy is a kind of relationship with the other, in which tangetiality, subjectivity and subjunctive social effects support such a relationship towards flexibility.

Keywords: ethos, adversity, ethnosynthoms, ethnoetiology, subjunctive social effects