Curanderismo, etnicidad y justicia. Sobre una causa criminal en la frontera sur de Córdoba del Tucumán en las postrimerías del siglo XVIII

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the positions and strategies deployed in a specific therapeutic market. The inquiry is based on a criminal record in which a mulato is accused of curanderismo in the southern border in Cordoba del Tucuman at the end of 18th century. The microhistorical approach allows to wave a complex plot in which interacts socioethnical hierarchies in a colonial context, practices of healing situated in the limits of certified medicine and forms of application of justice.