La ira del Zemi: predicción de huracanes en el Caribe por los arahuacos

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  • Renzo S. Duin University of Florida, Estados Unidos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24215/26840162e024

Palabras clave:

Caribe, etnoastronomía, arqueología precolombina, culturas del bosque tropical, predicción meteorológica

Resumen

Basándose en más de veinte años de investigación y experiencia de campo a largo plazo en el Neotrópico, este artículo sostiene la existencia de una metodología indígena para pre­decir la llegada de huracanes en el Caribe. El yacimiento arqueológico estudiado es el de Anse à la Gourde, en Guadalupe (Antillas francesas), que se analiza en conjunción con una base teórica que se apoya en la etnoastronomía y las cosmologías indígenas amazónicas. La conceptualización de este estudio se remonta a una experiencia del autor durante una escuela de campo arqueológica en 1995, y ha sido a través de la “perspectiva del habitar” que el autor ha cambiado de paradigmas y ha podido dar sentido a sus percepciones origi­nales. Durante el desarrollo de esta innovadora hipótesis sobre la predicción de huracanes por pueblos indígenas del Caribe antes de la llegada de Cristóbal Colón, ha surgido una hipótesis alternativa sobre un momento crucial en la arqueología del Caribe, específica­mente sobre el final del Saladoide, alrededor del año 800 d.C.

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Duin, R. S. (2024). La ira del Zemi: predicción de huracanes en el Caribe por los arahuacos. Cosmovisiones / Cosmovisões, 5(1), 313–339. https://doi.org/10.24215/26840162e024