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- Title
MODERNIDAD ALTERNATIVA: MEDICINAS LOCALES EN LOS ALTOS DE CHIAPAS.
- Authors
Diaz, Steffan Igor Ayora
- Abstract
The article discusses local medicine in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico from a cultural and anthropological perspective. It asserts that modern, urban, cosmopolitan society, with roots in the Spanish conquest of the Americas, has attributed disproportionate importance to the role of herbal medicine in traditional healing. The article notes that ritual and supernatural aspects of healing were historically afforded more significance than recognized by post-Colombian, European-influenced civilization. It aims to show how the modern scientific collective imagination, founded in the concept of reason, has reduced traditional healing to herbal medicine and how this process has influenced the self-perception and sense of legitimacy of members of local cultures.
- Subjects
CHIAPAS (Mexico); MEXICO; LATIN American traditional medicine; TRADITIONAL medicine; ALTERNATIVE medicine; MEDICAL anthropology; MODERN society; MODERN civilization; MODERNITY; LOCAL culture; LOCAL knowledge; CULTURAL fusion
- Publication
Nueva Antropología: Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 2010, Vol 23, Issue 72, p11
- ISSN
0185-0636
- Publication type
Article