Cuerpo y vida nuda. Una aproximación a la noción de cuerpo-vida entre grupos étnicos ante el proyecto occidental de la muerte

Abstract

Our article is about authentic diversity by making an approximation to the equation body, cosmos, health, life and death. We will resort to a comparison between the ontology of peoples where the conception of the cosmos and nature interfere with the vital character of their existing life, death is a consequence of life, because in death there is life; existence depends on a macro-cosmic relationship and not on a reductionism of a biological order. The current context reopens an important debate, this infamous universalization of merely biological life, a biopolitical project par excellence, splits out any component of a cosmological order, thus not allowing, no interpretation based on cultural otherness. Western society sharply imposes a biological life, naked life where life is quantifiable, measurable, and determined by a Sovereign power that decides between life and death, therefore biopolitics. For this debate, we will return to the thinking of indigenous peoples, those that “we always use to boast” of the diversity of thought. They will be our object of study to reaffirm an acute criticism of the project that Western civilization has consolidated in the 21st century: a reductionist vision of being, body and health, tanapolitical project 2500 years old.