Abstract

FLORES ALBORNOZ, Daniel. The Health and Traditional Indigenous Medicine Social Organization and the Crisis of Tének Tradition in the Huasteca region of San Luis Potosí. Desacatos [online]. 2019, n.59, pp.98-113. ISSN 2448-5144.

Based on the case study of an organization of traditional indigenous physicians located in Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, this article shows the crisis of the Tének tradition. We argue how the reclaiming intention of a tradition generates a crisis difficult to solve, in a context where the languages involved and their corresponding social practices contradict the very tradition to be defended. The analysis illustrates that the emerging process of the crisis rests in the interests of the State institutions, against whom some opposition remains as well as other indigenous healers who do not follow the tradition, so the crisis is not solved but accentuated and prevails.

Keywords : traditional indigenous healers organization; social and cultural confusion; crisis of indigenous tradition; Huasteca of San Luis Potosí; quackery.

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