Prácticas mortuorias sobre las momias prehispánicas de Chihuahua

Abstract

Cultural practices  around death  expressed by  ancient  human groups   and materialized in mortuary contexts have been of great interest  to anthropology almost  since its consolidation as a science in the 19th century  and  one of the ways  to know  how populations of the past conceived  their reality  is through the study  of their funerary practices,  since these  are uses,  customs  and  rites that begin  even befare  the death  of the individual.  These funerary practices of the Raramuri people,  also known  as Tarahumara, are an example  of the relationship that exists between their worldview and their customs,  reflected in the pre-Hispanic mummified bodies of the current  State of Chihuahua. The aim is to integrate  the interdisciplinary analysis  around mortuary contexts by resorting to ethnohistorical testimonies that  describe  the cultural  aspects  of this group  to be contrasted by bioarchaeological evidence.