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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Main Author: Pedro Pablo Salvador Hernandez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2011-05-01
Series:Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/61317