La Envidia: An Illness Manifest at the Level of the Community Body
In Curanderismo and other traditional medicine systems, illnesses are understood to have somatic and emotional components and symptoms may be elicited by disruptions in interpersonal relationships between community members. An aspect of ritual interventions involves returning interpersonal relations...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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American Anthropological Association
[2020]
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| Dans: |
Anthropology of consciousness
Année: 2020, Volume: 31, Numéro: 2, Pages: 174-199 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Curanderismo
/ Envy
/ Psychic crisis
/ Social norms
/ Healing
/ Ritual
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| RelBib Classification: | AE Psychologie de la religion AZ Nouveau mouvement religieux KBQ Amérique du Nord ZD Psychologie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Shamanism
B blurred psychological boundaries B embodied experience B ritual intervention B somatics |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |
| Résumé: | In Curanderismo and other traditional medicine systems, illnesses are understood to have somatic and emotional components and symptoms may be elicited by disruptions in interpersonal relationships between community members. An aspect of ritual interventions involves returning interpersonal relationships to balance and restoring harmonious interactions between members of the community. Important are shared understandings of the meaning of the symptoms, the mode of transmission of the illness, and the resolution that occurs through the process of the healer’s ritual interventions. In this essay, I present a narrative description of the illness, La Envidia, which is associated with the expression of the emotion, envy. The narrative was shared with me by a person who is a migrant from an Afromestizo community of the Pacific Coast of Mexico to Atlanta, Georgia. The illness, La Envidia, is discussed and interpreted framed by perspectives including Participation Mystique and blurred psychological boundaries, traditional indigenous conceptualizations of illness, shamanism and symbolization processes, shared meaning, traditional Yoruba informed African conceptualizations of illness and healing practices, and somatic and embodied ritual experiences. |
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| ISSN: | 1556-3537 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Anthropology of consciousness
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/anoc.12126 |