Pain subjects, land of dignity

• Main Author: Carmen Gaona Pisonero
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos 2014-11-01
• Series: methaodos.revista de ciencias sociales
• Subjects: antropología médica; comunicación; medicalización, memoria colectiva; ruralidad; semiótica; salud
• Online Access: https://www.methaodos.org/revista-methaodos/index.php/methaodos/article/view/54

<p>This article starts with a commitment to understanding the diachronic setting that a specific population makes on their "health experience". This community is the village of Campo de Nijar (Almería, Spain), where the researcher conducted an ethnographic work collecting the stories of the indigenous population of the municipality. This ethnographic work alternates the reconstruction of collective memory and personal narratives. The latter are keys to understanding the complex intersubjective mechanisms that influence both conscious and unconscious in the construction of the prevailing health senses of the population of a territory resignified throughout history.</p>