Los saberes en la medicina intercultural de la Unión Campesina del Azuay (Ecuador)
Fanny Tubay Zambrano,
María Teresa Arteaga
Abstract:The study shows how healers from the Peasant Union of Azuay (UNASAY-E) in Ecuador, faced with the needs of today's world, raise the need to continue training; and they make known their vision of what knowledge they require to care for the body, mind and spirit. The research is ethnographic and uses tools such as semi-structured interviews and focus groups. The results reveal that the knowledge inherited from generation to generation is in permanent territorial and collective construction. It also explains whic… Show more
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