Aproximación a un estado del arte sobre prácticas de medicina tradicional y popular en Hispanoamérica

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5773016
AutoresOmar Alberto Garzón Chiriví (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Número41
Páginas157-168
Fecha de publicación2015-01-15
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFolios (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0123-4870 • E-ISSN: 2462-8417
EditorialNational Pedagogic University (PUBLISHER • CO)
DOI10.17227/01234870.41folios157.168
OpenAlexW574552099
IdiomaES
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas4

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17227/01234870.41folios157.168This 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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