TY - JOUR
KW - Andean medicine
KW - Andes
KW - Ecuador
KW - archaeological evidence
KW - cultural influence
KW - ethnomedicine
KW - healing rituals
KW - health belief
KW - health beliefs
KW - health models
KW - health policy
KW - indigenous knowledge
KW - interdisciplinary approach
KW - medical geography
KW - policy approach
KW - traditional knowledge
KW - traditional medicine
AU - E. Currie
AU - J. Schofield
AU - F. Ortega Perez
AU - D. Quiroga
AB - 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.
DO - 10.1080/00438243.2018.1474799
M1 - 3
N1 - Publisher: Routledge
N2 - 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.
SP - 461
EP - 479
TI - Health beliefs, healing practices and medico-ritual frameworks in the Ecuadorian Andes: the continuity of an ancient tradition
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85049125778&doi=10.1080%2f00438243.2018.1474799&partnerID=40&md5=349eea0e54e5572a95e96fbba1decbae
VL - 50
SN - 00438243 (ISSN)
ER -