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Revista de la Universidad Industrial de Santander. Salud
Print version ISSN 0121-0807
Abstract
MARTINEZ SILVA, Pablo Andrés. "Taking out the cold": images of the practice of bonesettering (sobandería) in Nasa People. Rev. Univ. Ind. Santander. Salud [online]. 2016, vol.48, n.4, pp.562-569. ISSN 0121-0807. https://doi.org/10.18273/revsal.v48n4-2016015.
Objective: To describe the "bonesettering" (sobandería) practices in Nasa People. Methodology: the author participate in "Word Circles" and realize ethnographic interviews to Nasa People. The data was stored as fieldnotes in a field diary, and was analyzed by content analysis technique. The photographs were captured during a bonesettering practice. Results: describe of bonesettering practices of Nasa People using textual and visual media. This practices is contextualized in "cosmovision" and traditional healthcare system. Conclusion: Bonesettering practice is a therapeutic practice culturally inmersed in "cosmovision" of Nasa People. This is relevant in the exercise of therapeutic complementarity in a context of medical pluralism.
Keywords : Bonesettering; traditional healthcare; Nasa people.