Disputas y tensiones a partir de la medicina ancestral mapuche en Puelmapu (Patagonia Argentina)

Abstract

In this work I propose to analyze the arguments and definitions on the different uses of concepts of "medicine", "health", "territory" and "knowledge", which were put into tension from the readings and reflections on the conjunctural context of a SARS­ CoV­2 pandemic (coronavirus), carried out by a group of indigenous Mapuche com­munities in Puelmapu region (Argentina), mobilized for some years around the lawen –an ancestral Mapuche medicine–. From the ethnographic method, I propose to review how they are contested and re­emphasized through the Mapuche “counte­rword”, contention languages that establish definitions, meanings and regulations in discourses as practices of the Argentine State and the World Health Organization.