Movimiento, trayectorias y lucha: experiencias del Pueblo mapuche-tehuelche en Patagonia sobre la defensa del lawen (medicina mapuche)

Abstract

Starting in 2017, I began an ethnographic work with in-depth interviews, conversations, and participation in conflictive situations and demands, to explore the paths that fork and intertwine indigenous communities, organizations, and families in the fight for their knowledge and practices regarding their territories and health. By addressing indigenous strategies to access public policies or an expansion of rights and broader citizenships, I will investigate the process of struggle for Mapuche medicine (lawen) started by the communities and organizations of the Mapuche-Tehuelche people in Patagonia (Argentina). In this sense, I will emphasize understanding the daily lives of Mapuche people who, living in the city, have different access to health in terms of hegemonic medicine. It is from investigating these processes that I propose in this article reflect on how a notion of movement and a reaffirmation are built as political subjects in struggle against the hegemony of biomedicine