Author, as appears in the article.: Ricco, Isabella;
Department: Antropologia, Filosofia i Treball Social
URV's Author/s: Riccò, Isabella
Abstract: During the second half of the twentieth century, numerous studies on folk medicine (and particularly on the ritual called segnatura) were conducted in Italy. Nonetheless, the interest for the phenomenon has drastically decreased during the last decades due to the `apparent' disappearance of folk therapeutic rituals. A multi-located research conducted between Emilia Romagna and Catalonia constitutes the base for this contribution, which aim is to present the folk medicine panorama in these two areas. On the one hand, the disappearance of the classic model of folk medicine has been confirmed, while, at the same time, it has been showed how this fact does not imply folk medicine's disappearance as such. Many of these therapeutic practices and beliefs have sure enough been reinserted into another context, increasingly present in the Western countries: the one of alternative medicines and holistic therapies. This reality permits to draw a link between the today's and yesterday's therapeutic pluralisms, as well as to demonstrate the need of `spaces of resistance' to the hegemonic medical model.
Thematic Areas: Humanities, multidisciplinary
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: isabella.ricco@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-3612-430X
Record's date: 2024-06-22
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion
Link to the original source: https://lares.cfs.unipi.it/archivio/2019-3/ricco-abstract/
Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Lares. 85 (3): 475-492
APA: Ricco, Isabella; (2019). PLURALISMO TERAPEUTICO E MEDICINA POPOLARE: DALLA SEGNATURA
ALLE MEDICINE ALTERNATIVE. Lares, 85(3), 475-492
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2019
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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