Anthropology of the body and pain

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Manuel Enrique Muñoz Mainato

Abstract

The cult to the body is present in all the cultures and epochs historical, as well as “the experience of the
pain” that has led the human beings to the exercise of the domain and of the power of some over others
by means of the pain application on the bodies; for example the ideological mastery of religious dye
exercised by the Hebrew patriarchs, the educated Sumerian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman,
Aztec, Mayan, Inca, etc. During the Middle Ages, this one was stated realize with more clarity. A body
tortured, submitted to the pain and to the torture is not but a pedagogic modality for its congeners. The
fear, the terror are bosses who design a type of human conduct, they do of the human beings a few instruments
of utility of the powerful ones, of the delinquents, of the drug traffickers whose only intention is
to increase its empire of the capital for the power of the weapon.

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