Cómo la resignificación del lawen se abre camino en contextos de disenso en torno a las diferentes concepciones sobre territorialidad.

Abstract

As part of a broader research on political processes of remembrance of lawen (ancestral mapuche medicine), this article addresses the tensions arising in disputes over senses in territory, health and mapuche medicine, within the struggle against SENASA's ban on lawen transport through national borders. The study involves political projects and struggles carried out by different members of mapuche-tehuelche people when, on the Chile – Argentina border, the national sanity and health organism (SENASA) forbade a mapuche authority to cross the border with the lawen he had already been using to treat a disease. The historical and political contexts are here explained so as to deepen the awareness of these processes, and add elements in order to fully comprehend the notions of health and sickness within this local group, and the variation of sense in the border transit currently regulated by states.