From Eviction to Coexistence: Opaque Connections and Conflicts Between Mapuche Health and Biomedicine in Patagonia
This paper examines how the eviction of the Mapuche community Lafken Winkul Mapu (Río Negro, Argentina) led to the creation of the Territorial Community Network and its Health Commission, subsequently giving rise to the Pluricultural Committee of San Martín and Junín de los Andes. Through an ethnogr...
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Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/CAS/article/view/15839 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=cantropo&d=15839_oai |
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| Sumario: | This paper examines how the eviction of the Mapuche community Lafken Winkul Mapu (Río Negro, Argentina) led to the creation of the Territorial Community Network and its Health Commission, subsequently giving rise to the Pluricultural Committee of San Martín and Junín de los Andes. Through an ethnographic approach, the article explores the "opaque connections" that enabled the incorporation of Mapuche medicine within hospital institutions. It focuses on the "coexisting disagreements" that emerge in the interaction of different notions and practices about health, and on how knowledge is negotiated in culturally diverse settings. Based on the description of different ethnographic scenarios, we highlight the specific points of tension identified by Mapuche people in contexts of coexistence between Mapuche medicine and biomedicine. In doing so, we seek to contribute to anthropological discussions on what we understand as "open spaces" or interculturalism. |
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