Abstract

MENENDEZ, Eduardo L. Traditional medicine. Some proposals for its study. Cuicuilco. Rev. cienc. antropol. [online]. 2023, vol.30, n.88, pp.169-192.  Epub Apr 08, 2024. ISSN 2448-8488.

In this study I will present some important sides of my investigations about traditional medicine, including health/sickness/attention/prevention operating in Mexican indigenous people. The first process refers to evidence’s need about our theoretical and ideological presupposes referring to investigation’s process, the second propose to include life’s conditions as a context and explanation about present problems, the third one tries to think traditional medicine as a change problem, sometimes as a radical one, the forth one tries propose searching need to look for not only differences worldview to daily life to refer them to reality.

Keywords : traditional medicine; methodology; differences; worldview; biomedicine.