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This article explores the premises related to personhood, human mortality, and society underlying the experience of the Self in the Achuar Jivaro, an indigenous Amazonian culture. While not discursively elaborated and seemingly contradictory, these assumptions combine to generate an implicit theory of human existence. The sense of self is rooted in the progressive individuation of a bodily envelope, formally singular but initially anonymous. This process involves the saturation of the body image with the memory of loving or hostile interactions with other subjects; proprioception is thus, from the Achuar perspective, an internalization of the reflection of the self-image as seen/thought by others. The sense of self is therefore particularly vulnerable to the affective fluctuations of the social fabric in which every individual is caught.

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