Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians by Pierre Clastres Paul Auster

Author:Pierre Clastres, Paul Auster [Pierre Clastres, Paul Auster]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780942299786
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Publisher: Zone Books
Published: 2001-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

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For one month, until her next menstruation, Chachugi refrained from eating meat, honey, and wasp grubs, so that her eyes would not become bloodshot, her first child would not be a girl, her labor would not be endangered, and her first son would not be deformed. She also refrained from playing the flute because it would “dry out” her arms. She did not make love either; what was more, no man would have dared suggest it to her: a dare pou, new woman, was too dangerous. For a time, all the men and women who had taken part in the purification ritual also gave up the pleasure of meno.

Chachugi had been afraid of becoming a grown-up, a true Atchei — she had wanted to remain a “new woman.” Could such a thing last long? In any case, the fact was that one cold morning in June, the body of the little dare pou was discovered, already stiff; she had died silently during the night. No one said anything about it. Ache ro kwaty, the Atchei know.

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