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The Antiquity and Persistence of Traditional Health Beliefs and Practices in the Northern Andes (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Currie.

This paper presents findings of a new European Community funded research project: "Indigenous Concepts of Health and Healing in Andean Populations". The study population are indigenous Quechua peoples in northern Andean Ecuador. The project examines ethnic Andeans’ understanding of their world and how health, illness and healing are understood within it. Current practices of traditional medicine (TM) have evolved within complex historical contexts into new forms which can reveal the nature of...