Coronavirin et extermination autochtone : étude d’une rumeur relative à la Covid-19 chez les Shipibo de San Francisco (Amazonie péruvienne)
The SARS-CoV-2 contamination in 2020 and 2021 of almost all of the inhabitants of the Shipibo-Konibo village of San Francisco de Yarinacocha is at the origin of rumors developed by the villagers relating a plan of mass extermination that would have been instigated by witch doctors from the West. The...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Association Anthropologie Médicale Appliquée au Développement et à la Santé
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| Series: | Anthropologie & Santé |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/12524 |
| Summary: | The SARS-CoV-2 contamination in 2020 and 2021 of almost all of the inhabitants of the Shipibo-Konibo village of San Francisco de Yarinacocha is at the origin of rumors developed by the villagers relating a plan of mass extermination that would have been instigated by witch doctors from the West. These rumors could be considered as metaphors for the ways in which villagers internalize their concerns about their health, which has been profoundly degraded by the rapid shift from a self-subsistence economy based on abundance to a monetization of the local economy marked by pauperization and syndemics. The management of Covid-19 through a return to local medicines and by resurrecting the strong links that unite this society to the plant world acted nevertheless as a therapeutic counter-power and a force of indigenous resilience intended to counter not only the deterioration of the health situation, but also the gradual assimilation of the villagers into the mainstream culture. |
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| ISSN: | 2111-5028 |