Los hueseros Escobar. Hibridación entre la medicina tradicional y la biomedicina en Cochabamba, Bolivia
This article examines the treatment of the phenomenon of health and illness in the context of cultural hybridization within Escobar bonesetter’s clinic in the municipality of Cliza, in Cochabamba (Bolivia). It addresses the characteristic features of their therapy that combines purely mechanical and...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
2011-05-01
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Series: | Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/61317 |