@article{8457,
  keywords = {Andean medicine, Andes, Ecuador, archaeological evidence, cultural influence, ethnomedicine, healing rituals, health belief, health beliefs, health models, health policy, indigenous knowledge, interdisciplinary approach, medical geography, policy approach, traditional knowledge, traditional medicine},
  author = {E. Currie and J. Schofield and F. Ortega Perez and D. Quiroga},
  title = {Health beliefs, healing practices and medico-ritual frameworks in the Ecuadorian Andes: the continuity of an ancient tradition},
  abstract = {This paper introduces the European Commission-funded project ‘MEDICINE: Indigenous Concepts of Health and Healing in Andean Populations’, which takes a time-depth perspective to its subject, and uses a framework of interdisciplinary methods which integrates archaeological-historical, ethnographic and modern health sciences approaches. The long-term study objective is ultimately to offer novel perspectives and methods in the global agenda to develop policies sensitive to indigenous, refugee and migrant people’s social, economic and health needs, as well as culturally sensitive approaches to the conservation of their ‘intangible cultural heritage’. This paper focuses on the project’s first phase, the critical examination of archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence and accounts from contemporary indigenous practitioners of Andean Traditional Medicine. These sources then shape the development of health beliefs and practices models which have informed the development of questionnaires for the second ‘survey’ phase of three indigenous Andean populations in the Central Sierra region of Ecuador.},
  volume = {50},
  number = {3},
  pages = {461-479},
  issn = {00438243 (ISSN)},
  url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85049125778&doi=10.1080%2f00438243.2018.1474799&partnerID=40&md5=349eea0e54e5572a95e96fbba1decbae},
  doi = {10.1080/00438243.2018.1474799},
  note = {Publisher: Routledge},
}