[AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF MEDICAL PRACTICES AND KNOWELEDGE IN THE NAHUA CONTEST ( NAUPAN, PUEBLA, MEXICO)].

Abstract

In the last thirty years, the improvement of biomedical acculturate had influenced the medical tradition of Nauha, in souther-eastern Mexico. The study analyses how the constituent elements of biomedical tradition are incorporated into new rhetorical, diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, mixed with languages and symbols typical of local tradition.