Indigenous Concepts of Health and Healing in Andean Populations: Understanding the Relevance of Traditional Medicine in a Changing World

by Elizabeth Currie and John Schofield

This book uses archaeology and ethnohistory to explore the evidence for the survival of ancestral beliefs and practices related to health and healing in Indigenous Andean communities.

The authors argue that through determining the nature of the survival of beliefs around health and healing, important insights are gained into how people develop adaptive strategies for survival in a way that allows a continuity of identity and integrity. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 103252636X
• ISBN13: 9781032526362
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 294 Pages