Magia, Brujería Y Violencia en Colombia

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ID4518710
AuthorsAlberto Uribe Carlos (Licenciado en Antropología (Universidad de los Andes), M. A. en Antropología (Universidad de Pittsburg), Ph. D. en Antropología (Universidad de Pittsburg). Profesor titular del Departamento de Antropología, Universidad de los Andes. Agradecimientos: Estos materiales forman parte de la investigación “La violencia simbólica y la enfermedad mental: un enfoque etnopsiquiátrico” (financiada por Colciencias y la División de Investigaciones, Bogotá, de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia). En la investigación y..., corresponding author)
Year2003
Issue15
Pages59-73
Publication date2003-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista de Estudios Sociales (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0123-885X • E-ISSN: 1900-5180
PublisherUniversidad de los Andes (PUBLISHER • VE)
DOI10.7440/res15.2003.04
OpenAlexW4320801412
LanguageES
Citations received7

This article discusses the relationship between magic, witchcraft, cure, and contemporary Colombian social conflict. Based on an ethnographic study of a clinical case of mental sickness, the argument seeks to show how a situation of social conflict and chaos offers a privileged scenariofor witchcraft practices. Magic and witchcraft, it is argued, offer a via regia for exploring the maze created by suffering, repression and guilt (the pathos) in our culture –i.e. an analytical road to explain what igmund Freud called "the malaise of civilization". In the discussion, the ocial pathology of the family –especially of the antioqueño family–receives a particular attention

Argument (complex analysis · Art · Civilization · Criminology · Ethnography · Literature · MAGIC (telescope · Malaise · Pathos · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Anthropology · Law · Psychological Treatments and Disorders · Psychology

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