EPIDEMICS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF RURAL AYMARA COMMUNITIES OF THE PERUVIAN HIGHLANDS

Alanoca Arocutipa V.; Apaza Ticona J.; Calderon Torres A.; Cutipa Añamuro G.; WillamCondori Castillo W. · Dialogo Andino (2025) · DOI: 10.4067/s0719-26812025000100086

Resumen

The present research aims to identify and analyze epidemics from the perspective of the Aymara communities, taking as an example the cultural practices during the Covid-19 pandemic. The methodology used is qualitative and ethnographic; in that sense, interviews and observations have been conducted in various communities using the Aymara language, which contains wisdom about the struggle for life. The results show the forms of conception about epidemics, in this specific case, about the pandemic and the cultural practices of using ancestral medicine as an alternative C and resistance to complex situations. It is concluded that the population of the Aymara communities, from their daily experience, recreate healing practices in times of pandemic that are constituted as an alternative in complex and adverse situations of the state health system.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional del Altiplano