As wind, blow or whistle: on the manifestations of death and death in the Argentine Northeast and southern Paraguay

Abstract

We propose as objective to present and describe some of the modalities of manifestation of death and death in the Argentine Northeast and the South of Paraguay. For this, we abstract from the corpus of the investigation the references on the presence of death and the dead in the form of wind, blow or whistle; distinguishing between adult death and death of children. We focus on announcements of death, on the rite of wakes, and on cemeteries / burials. For the research, the ethnographic method has been prioritized, applying in-depth interviews and observations in different contexts; The fieldwork was carried out between 2010 and 2108 among the population of Catholic creed. We can give an account of the differential meanings that these movements of the air acquire between the interlocutors under study and how spaces of meaning are re-generated and reconsidering part of the funeral memory of the peoples.