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The Health of the Rurality: The E ncuesta de F olklore and Popular Healing Practices in T ucumán, 1921
Author(s) -
DIMAS CARLOS S.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/blar.12669
Subject(s) - rurality , quarter (canadian coin) , government (linguistics) , political science , business , geography , rural area , law , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology
This article examines healing practices among the rural inhabitants of Tucumán in the opening quarter of the twentieth century through a reading of the 1921 N ational F olklore S urvey. It argues that popular medical practices, referred to as curanderismos (popular healing), continued into the twentieth century not only as cultural practice of the popular classes but as necessity due to limited investments in public health in the rural regions on the part of the national and provincial government.