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David Achig Balarezo
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ABSTRACT
INTERCULTURAL AND ANDEAN WORLDVIEW
Ecuador is a multiethnic country and therefore multicultural. Multiculturalism is the relationship between
different ethnic groups within the same space, is to recognize the differences in effort and permanent work;
highlights two elements otherness and identity. Medical systems are cultural and intercultural systems in
our country live three orders: Western medicine, traditional medicine, alternative medicines. The ancestral
axis with its worldview is based on knowledge that articulate the paradigm of energy for explanations of
health and life. The Andean worldview attributed the disease as a community event. Health is achieved by
finding the material and spiritual conditions to build a harmonious life. The main features of the Andean
worldview regarding health are: Relationality of all, where everything is in one way or another connected
with everything; correspondence, where each phenomenon can be understood by analyzing their corresponding two opposite; Complementarity, where phenomena distinct and opposite another phenomenon
may be associated; Reciprocity: wherein each action corresponds to another, is the principle give and take,
not only between people but also with the Pachamama and the cosmos.
KEY WORDS: CULTURE, ETHNOLOGY, HOLISTIC HEALTH.
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CONCLUSIN
La cosmovisin andina atribuye la enfermedad como un hecho
comunitario. La salud se consigue a travs bsqueda de las condiciones materiales y espirituales para construir una vida armnica. Las caractersticas principales de la cosmovisin andina con
respecto a la salud son: la Relacionalidad del todo, en donde todo
est de una u otra manera vinculado con todo; la correspondencia,
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ABREVIATURA
Allikawsay o sumakkawsay: vida armnica. Chikis: excrecencias
energticas mrbidas. Pachamama. Deidad inca madre
tierra. Sinchi: fuerza vital. Ukupacha: tratamiento del malestar.
Yachak: Sabio de la comunidad y curandero.
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