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Aproximación a un estado del arte sobre prácticas de medicina tradicional y popular en Hispanoamérica / Approach to a state of the art on practices of traditional and popular medicine in Latin America
Garzón Chiriví, Omar Alberto.
  • Garzón Chiriví, Omar Alberto; Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. Bogota. CO
Folio ; (41): 157-168, 2014.
Article in Spanish | LILACS, MTYCI | ID: biblio-996925
RESUMEN
Este artículo presenta un estado del arte de la producción académica sobre medicinas tradicionales y populares en Hispanoamérica. Se analiza la relación entre los estudios de chamanismo en comunidades indígenas en algunos países de habla española (Colombia, Perú, Bolivia, México, España) con estudios de curanderismo en contextos urbanos, mostrando la recurrencia de elementos de orden mágico, religioso y médico en sus prácticas terapéuticas. De igual manera, evidencia las mutaciones en las miradas sobre estos sistemas de tratamiento y atención de la salud y la enfermedad, su permanencia e incidencia sobre prácticas colectivas asociadas con la espiritualidad, con la construcción de alternativas de salud individual y social y el carácter interdisciplinario de las investigaciones. Así mismo, indica la existencia de vacíos analíticos en aspectos como género, clase y etnia, en los estudios de medicinas tradicionales y populares. (AU)
ABSTRACT
This article presents a state of the art of academic production concerning traditional and popular medicine in Latin America. It analyzes the relation between studies on chamanismo (the art of medicine men) in indigenous communities in some Spanish-speaking countries (Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico, Spain) and studies on curanderismo (the art of healers) in urban contexts and evidences recurring elements of a magical, religious and medical kind in their therapeutic practices. Likewise, it shows the changes in the understanding of these systems of treatment and assistance to health and sickness, their permanence and incidence on collective practices associated to spirituality, as well as the construction of alternatives of individual and social health and the interdisciplinary character of the existing research studies. This article, too, proposes the existence of an analytical vacuum regarding gender, class and ethnic group in the studies on traditional and popular medicine.
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Full text: Available Index: LILACS (Americas) Main subject: Review Literature as Topic / Anthropology, Medical / Medicine, Traditional Limits: Humans Country/Region as subject: South America / Colombia Language: Spanish Journal: Folio Year: 2014 Type: Article Institution/Affiliation country: Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas/CO

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Full text: Available Index: LILACS (Americas) Main subject: Review Literature as Topic / Anthropology, Medical / Medicine, Traditional Limits: Humans Country/Region as subject: South America / Colombia Language: Spanish Journal: Folio Year: 2014 Type: Article Institution/Affiliation country: Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas/CO