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- Title
«VIH/sida awajún»: nociones y experiencias de enfermedad y daño en un contexto de epidemia en la Amazonía peruana.
- Authors
Flores Rojas, María Ximena
- Abstract
According to the memories of some Awajun families, since 2002 rumors about a new disease called «Aids», began to appear in the El Cenepa district. This apách, or non-indigenous condition, was incorporated into Awajun daily life as part of their experiences with illness (jata) and sorcery (waweamu), generating the notions of «jata Aids» and «waweamu with Aids symptoms». Far from a biomedical or epidemiological approach, this article presents other possible dimensions of thinking about HIV/aids in indigenous contexts. From the complexity of Awajun knowledge about their bodies and the forces that affect him. This article aims to understand the notions and experiences of illness and sorcery that the Awajun population have regarding HIV/aids.
- Subjects
SYMPTOMS; WITCHCRAFT; EVERYDAY life; DISEASES; RUMOR; FAMILIES
- Publication
Antropológica (02549212), 2020, Vol 38, Issue 44, p235
- ISSN
0254-9212
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18800/anthropologica.202001.010