BookEntre saberes ancestrales y conocimientos contemporáneos: las representaciones ...
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- Entre saberes ancestrales y conocimientos contemporáneos: las representaciones y prácticas curativas en Suchitlán, Comala, Colima.
Published
- México: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2013.
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- This historical document and fieldwork-based book looks at traditional medical knowledge and practices in the area around Suchitlán, Colima (Nahuas), and its long history, as well as its conflicts and syncretisms with the biomedical model promoted by the state. Interviews 18 traditional healers, looks at 141 health challenges in the community, and explores concepts of the body and person, wellness and illness, and the therapeutic process, as well as how a healer is educated/initiated. Describes how the state has attacked traditional medicine through its healthcare system and has tried to incorporate and institutionalize it, both approaches being highly problematical.
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- 411 p.: bibl., ill., index.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-406) and index.
Portion of title
- Representaciones y prácticas curativas en Suchitlán, Comala, Colima
Series
- Colección Etnología y antropología social. Serie Enlace
- Colección Etnología y antropología social. Serie Enlace.
ISBN
- 9786074844160
- 607484416X
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- Duncan Earle