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Introducción - AntropologÃa de la curación hot!
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Con la publicación del libro Medicina y magia en 1963 se abrió un campo de investigación para la antropología que tardaría décadas en desarrollarse plenamente. Los caminos suscitados en los procesos de aculturación, así como el tratamiento de los “estudios de caso” analizados en la obra, ofrecen un panorama inigualable sobre la evolución de la “medicina tradicional” desde la época colonial hasta el México moderno. Aguirre Beltrán abrió un legado donde escasas, aunque importantes, aportaciones mantuvieron vivo el interés por los estudios sobre salud- enfermedad en años subsecuentes. Aunque el desplazamiento del eje de interés de la antropología y de la etnología desde el indigenismo hacia otras esferas de la vida social y cultural dejó un tanto relegados los trabajos sobre costumbres curativas de las comunidades étnicas, no impidió que se siguieran sumando investigaciones cuyos resultados ampliaron los enfoques sobre el tema.
Paseando por Chiapas... Acercamiento a una tipologÃa de los terapeutas tradicionales choles de Tilahot!
This article begins with the conception of Choles- Mayan people from the south of Mexico to whom the sense of illness and healing is related to the idea of universal balance. Illness is considered a punishment which leads to reflect upon one’s own moral and social behavior. Getting ill will not be accidental or fortuitous. Therapy involves all the family and the healing methods depend on each case. The author sets up a typology in which healers are classified in terms of the type of illness they are able to diagnose and therefore, challenge healing.
El papel del curandero y la medicina tradicional en Yucatánhot!
The author focuses her work on the Pucc-Mayan zone from the peninsula of Yucatan. She seems to find healers who combine several specialties contrary to the Eastern area where specialization is rather strict. This article points out the impact modern medicine has caused regarding the treatment of illnesses of physical origins. The same healers introduce allopathic remedies at the same time they deal with herbalist treatments. Within the indigenous cultural context, in regards to illnesses of psychosomatic nature, the healer is considered to be the only one who has the knowledge to detect them and heal them.
Tres procedimientos diagnósticos de la medicina tradicional indÃgenahot!
The article consists in a general study of the people of Mexico regarding the ways of establishing the origins and basic causes of illnesses. The author finds four basic causes of illnesses that can be related to each other: natural, social, divine and seasonal. The different methods of diagnosis, pulse, corn-reading and divinatory dreams, show the essential features of the specialists, their powers and their relation to the natural and spiritual world. The diagnosis methods have within themselves healing powers where physical illnesses cannot be separated from the spiritual.