Substances, relationships and the omnipresence of the body: an overview of Ashéninka ethnomedicine (Western Amazonia)
Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine November 10, 2006 Marc Lenaerts 42 citations
Indigenous Amazonian ethnomedicine usually relies on numerous forms of healing, exercised by both specialists and non-specialists. Such is the case among the "Asheninka del Ucayali" (Arawak from the Peru-Brazil border). This paper attempts to elicit the underlying consistencies of their manifold, often contradictory practices and statements.It draws on ethnographic data gathered between 1997...