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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1870-4115</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista pueblos y fronteras digital]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. pueblos front. digit.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1870-4115</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias sobre Chiapas y la Frontera Sur]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1870-41152007000200094</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2007.4.218</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[La noción de persona entre los mayas: una visión semántica]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Bourdin]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Gabriel Luis]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México IIA ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2007</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2007</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>2</volume>
<numero>4</numero>
<fpage>94</fpage>
<lpage>124</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1870-41152007000200094&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1870-41152007000200094&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1870-41152007000200094&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen El presente trabajo está dedicado a las representaciones culturales de la persona entre los mayas yucatecos. Se enfoca la noción de persona partiendo de las categorías conceptuales contenidas en el vocabulario. Se intenta dar una visión semántica de la categoría de persona, atendiendo al significado de las palabras empleadas para identificar los diversos componentes del ser humano individual. Se identifican algunos de los conceptos fundamentales referidos a los diversos componentes que integran el ser humano en la concepción de esta cultura. Entre los mayas peninsulares modernos, el individuo humano se concibe como una unidad de wiinkilil &#8220;cuerpo&#8221;, pixan &#8220;alma&#8221; y ool &#8220;ánimo&#8221;; esta concepción difiere en alguna medida de la que se infiere a partir de los testimonios en maya colonial, y también de las de otros pueblos hablantes de lenguas mayances, entre otras cosas por la ausencia entre los mayas peninsulares de la idea de un &#8220;doble animal&#8221; asociado de modo íntimo con la vida del individuo.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract The present paper studies cultural representations of person among Yucatec Mayas. The study is focussed on the notion of person starting from the conceptual characteristics contained in the vocabulary. The paper attempts to give a semantic point of view of the category of person, considering the meaning of the words used to identify the different components of the human being taken as an individual. Some of the essential concepts that refer to the diverse components of the individual human being are identified here. Among the modern Peninsular Mayas, the human being is conceived as a unit of wíinkilil &#8211;body&#8211;, pixán &#8211;soul&#8211;, and óol &#8211;spirit. This conception somewhat differs from the idea that has been transmitted by Colonial Maya testimonies and by other people speaking Mayan languages. Among other things, this happens because of the absence, among Peninsular Mayas, of an &#8220;animal companion&#8221;, idea which is closely related to the individual&#8217;s life.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[persona]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[maya yucateco]]></kwd>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[person]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[mayan language]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[semantic terms]]></kwd>
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