Raramuri health and illness: around the practice of quackery

Authors

  • Ángel Acuña Delgado Universidad de Granada, España
  • Estrella Gómez Molina SAS, Granada, España

Abstract

The rarámuri society seated in the Tarahumara saw constitutes the most numerous indigenous group of the northwest of Mexico, with a demography that, according to the census of 2000, rises up to 84.086 persons (INEGI, 2000). On the information basis obtained in the course of eleven months of fieldwork (from 2001 until 2005) developed in several communities, specially of the Discharge Tarahumara (between Norogachi, Choguita, Tehuerichi and Narárarchi), let’s sense beforehand the results concerning the practices of quackery used to face to its peculiar conception of the health and the disease. To this respect, we do first an approximation to the
current state of health, to answer afterwards to how the disease is conceived, and which are the curative procedures and the traditional specialists who apply them.

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Published

2014-11-16

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How to Cite

Acuña Delgado, Ángel, & Gómez Molina, E. (2014). Raramuri health and illness: around the practice of quackery. Antropología Experimental, 10. https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/rae/article/view/1938

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