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Sistemas médicos tradicionales en la Amazonia nororiental: salud y saberes alternativos / Traditional medical systems in the northeastern Amazon region of Colombia: health and alternative knowledge
Clavijo Úsuga, Carmen Raquel.
Affiliation
  • Clavijo Úsuga, Carmen Raquel; Universidad de Antioquia. Facultad de Medicina. Medellín. CO
Iatreia ; 24(1): 5-15, mar.-mayo 2011. graf
Article in Spanish | LILACS | ID: lil-599268
Responsible library: CO56.1
RESUMEN
Mediante una investigación de tipo etnográfico llevada a cabo entre 1997 y 2003, y en un período de cuatro meses entre 2008 y 2009, basada en reuniones comunitarias, talleres, entrevistas con los médicos tradicionales y otros líderes, visitas a los domicilios y participación en las fiestas comunitarias, se hizo un acercamiento a los sistemas médicos de comunidades indígenas Puinave, Curripaco, Piapoco, Guahibo, así como de algunas otras pertenecientes al grupo lingüístico Tucano oriental, que habitan los departamentos amazónicos de Guainía y Vaupés. El análisis se centró en las funciones sociales, ecológicas y de identidad que cumple el sistema médico tradicional indígena, relacionándolo con el mantenimiento de alternativas al discurso del desarrollo. Se muestra la relación de hegemonía/ subalternidad que prevalece entre los sistemas médicos occidental y tradicional, evidenciando cómo este último se haresignificado y adecuado al contexto intercultural contemporáneo, lo cual pone en entredicho el reduccionismo biologicista de la medicina oficial.
ABSTRACT
An ethnographic research was carried out between 1997 and 2003, and during four months in 2008- 2009, on the traditional medical systems of indigenous communities in the Amazonian Colombian departments of Guainía and Vaupés. Puinave, Curripaco, Piapoco, Guahibo, and Tucano groups were included. The work was based on community meetings, targeted groups, conversations with shamans and other leaders, home visits, and participation in traditional festivals. Analysis centered on the social, ecologic, and identity roles played by traditional indigenous medical systems; the latter are related with the maintenance of alternatives to the development discourse. The hegemony/ subordination relationship that prevails between the Western and traditional medical systems ispresented, evidencing how the latter has resignified itself, adapting to the contemporary intercultural context, thus questioning the biologist reductionism of official medicine.
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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Health context: Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas Health problem: Goal 11: Inequalities and inequities in health Database: LILACS Main subject: Health Systems / Ethnicity / Ecological Development / Health of Ethnic Minorities / Indigenous Peoples / Medicine, Traditional Type of study: Qualitative research Aspects: Equity and inequality Limits: Humans Country/Region as subject: South America / Colombia Language: Spanish Journal: Iatreia Journal subject: Medicine Year: 2011 Document type: Article Affiliation country: Colombia Institution/Affiliation country: Universidad de Antioquia/CO
Full text: Available Collection: International databases Health context: Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas Health problem: Goal 11: Inequalities and inequities in health Database: LILACS Main subject: Health Systems / Ethnicity / Ecological Development / Health of Ethnic Minorities / Indigenous Peoples / Medicine, Traditional Type of study: Qualitative research Aspects: Equity and inequality Limits: Humans Country/Region as subject: South America / Colombia Language: Spanish Journal: Iatreia Journal subject: Medicine Year: 2011 Document type: Article Affiliation country: Colombia Institution/Affiliation country: Universidad de Antioquia/CO
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