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Alteridades No. 12 Abstracts hot!
- Resumen de los artÃculos en inglés
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El nahualismo y los tapahtiani-nahualmej de Cuetzalan, Sierra Norte de Pueblahot!
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Jorge César Vélez Cervantes. Nahualism and Tapahtiani-Nahualmej people from Cuetzalan, Puebla.
This article deals with a very accurate ethnographical description of several kinds of healers from the north mountains of Puebla. On one side, we find the “Tapahtiani” “the one who knows how to cure”; on the other side the “nahualmej” who presents a nahual nature with the possibility of transforming itself into an animal while asleep. Not all “tapahtiani” is a nahual nor all “nahualmej” is “tapahtiani”, the author points out. However, in some cases the “nahualmej” are required as “tapahtiani” in order to cure illnesses considered as “evil”, caused by harmful entities, airs or by “masakame”, a type of witch.
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El papel del curandero y la medicina tradicional en Yucatánhot!
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div align="justify">Ruth Gubler. The healer’s role and traditional medicine
in Yucatan.
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.
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This article describes a wide and meticulous landscape of the sequence that African religions followed in Cuba starting from their arrival in times of the Colony up to the present. The syncretic survival and the practice nowadays, show the strength and spreading out of their roots in Cuban society. Within the religion of the Orishas, the divinatory and healing system is joined together. The possession through medium methods seems to be an essential part which helps channel the spirits, not only of gods, but also of the dead towards divination and healing.