Health beliefs, healing practices and medico-ritual frameworks in the Ecuadorian Andes : the continuity of an ancient tradition

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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.

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Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Currie, Elizabeth Jean https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6220-0281 Schofield, Arthur John https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6903-7395 Ortega Perez, Fernando Quiroga, Diego
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© Informa UK Ltd, 2018. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. Elizabeth Currie is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Experienced Researcher and Global Fellow at the Department of Archaeology, and Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Health Sciences, University of York, United Kingdom. Elizabeth has regularly worked across disciplinary and methodological boundaries throughout her rich and varied career which has consisted of two principal trajectories: that of South American archaeology and anthropology, and health sciences and health workforce research. In recent years she developed her lifelong interests in ethnographic and ethnohistorical study of Latin America, during which period she lived and worked with indigenous Andean communities in Ecuador, researching Andean traditional culture and medicine.
Keywords:	Andean medicine; ethnomedicine; health beliefs; health models; healing rituals; traditional medicine
Dates:	Accepted: 5 March 2018 Published (online): 28 June 2018 Published: 1 October 2018
Institution:	The University of York
Academic Units:	The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Archaeology (York)
Depositing User:	Pure (York)
Date Deposited:	17 Sep 2018 14:50
Last Modified:	17 Apr 2024 23:12
Published Version:	https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2018.1474799
Status:	Published
Refereed:	Yes
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2018.1474799
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