INDIGENOUS MEDICINES IN LATIN AMERICA (ANSC 106) SPRING 2018

LE MWF 9:00 - 9:50am SEQUO 147 

Instructor:Dr. Paula F. SaraviaEmail: psaravia@ucsd.edu

Office Hours: Fridays 10:30 – 11:30am and by appointment.Cubicle number 4Geisel East Commons (2nd Floor )

1. Course Overview

Drawing on Medical Anthropology Ethnography, students will explore a variety of forms of healing among rural and urban Indigenous communities. A particular focus on Intercultural Health will allow the students to analyze contemporary medical landscapes where patients encounter Indigenous and Western Medicine. Students will learn about the complexities of urban and rural indigenous healing settings and their sociopolitical significance in contexts of state biomedical interventions.

2. Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course students will be able to 1) Identify and learn about indigenous medicines in Latin America and their historical background; 2) explain the particularities of indigenous framings of health and healing practices; 3) analyze the cultural dimension of medicine in the context of intercultural medical encounters; and 4) analyze and evaluate current global processes impacting indigenous peoples in Latin America.

3. Course work and assignments

Attendance: attendance to class is mandatory. Students are allowed to have 3 absences during the quarter. By the end of the quarter students should have attended 24 lectures. In case of illness or problems in attending class, please write an email to the instructor explaining the situation. Students may be able to do make-up work for partial credit. Participation in class discussions is essential in this class. We will use clickers to register attendance and class participation. Students should answer at least two (2) clicker questions each class to get participation credit. Not a right or wrong score! Active Reading: We will read a lot in this class. We will work with the required readings in class and at home (homework). Students should read and be prepared for discussing each case in class. Homework: Students will complete four (4) homework assignments during the quarter. These individual applied exercises will help with lecture preparation and studying. Extra-Credit: there are several activities concerning global health and medicine on campus. Take advantage of participating in meetings, seminars, film series, and conferences. Students can submit up to three (3) extra credit reports (500 words summary of the activity, relating it to the class content). Each extra-credit activity is worth 15 points (added to your final grade). Activities should be approved by the instructor.

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There are two options for assessing students work in this class! Students will decide in view of their own interest and communicate their decision to the instructor by Monday of week 3. Option A: 3 Take-home Midterms (weeks 4, 8, and 10. Students will have to write brief essays (1,000 words max.) answering questions (can choose 3 out of 5). Option B: Research Paper. Students will work on a research paper during the quarter. Topic should be approved by the instructor.

No final exam in this class.

Assessment of Student work.This class works with points. Every activity and assignment counts towards your final grade.

Participation 240class attendance (24 Lectures) 24*5engagement in discussions (clickers). 24*5Homework 200

individual assignments (4*50)Weeks 2, 5, 7, 9

Option A 560 pts.

Take-home Midterm #1 W4 180Take-home Midterm #2 W8 180Take-home Midterm #3 W10 200

Option B: Research Paper (10pages) 560 pts.

Paper Topic (1 page) W3 50Paper Outline W5 100

Literature Review W8 150

(5 scholarly sources min.)

Research Paper (10pages) 260(Finals Week)

Total: 1000 points

Extra-Credit 3*15 Complete CAPE evaluation 10

Grades

A+ 1000 points

A 950-999 A- 910-949 B+ 870-909 B 830-869

B- 800-829 C+ 770-799 C 730-769 C- 700-729

D+ 670-699 D 630-669 D- 600-629 F 0-599

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4. Required Books available from the UC San Diego Bookstore & University of California Libraries (on reserve)

http://www.facultybookshelf.org/course/16338

Bacigalupo, A. M. (2016). Thunder shaman: Making history with Mapuche spirits in Chile and Patagonia. University of Texas Press.

Briggs, C. L., & Mantini-Briggs, C. (2016). Tell Me Why My Children Died: Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice. Duke University Press.

Schultes, R. E., Hofmann, A., & Rätsch, C. (2001). Plants of the gods: their sacred, healing, and hallucinogenic powers: Healing Arts Press Rochester.

5. Additional Readings available from the Library or online.

Full references for scheduled requested and suggested readings. Notice that some readings are in Spanish. Those are not mandatory.

Armus, D. (2002). Entre médicos y curanderos: Cultura, historia y enfermedad en la América Latina moderna. Editorial Norma

Babis, D. (2014). The role of civil society organizations in the institutionalization of indigenous medicine in Bolivia. Social Science & Medicine, 123, 287-294.

Brown, M. (2014). Four Weddings and a Funeral. In Upriver: The Turbulent Life and Times of an Amazonian People (pp. 122-150). Harvard University Press. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7zswq8.9

Caqueo-Urízar, A., Breslau, J., & Gilman, S. E. (2015). Beliefs about the causes of schizophrenia among Aymara and non-Aymara patients and their primary caregivers in the Central–Southern Andes. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 61(1), 82-91.

Caroselli, S. (December 01, 2013). El dolor de los pacientes aymara de la comuna de Putre: prácticas terapéuticas y políticas de salud intercultural. Diálogo Andino, 42, 89-104.

Castro Lucic, M. (2005). Challenges in Chilean Intercultural Policies. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 28(1), 112-132.

Chevalier, J., & Bain, A. (2003). Frights and Chaneques. In The Hot and the Cold: Ills of Humans and Maize in Native Mexico (pp. 116-154). University of Toronto Press. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442681460.11

Cueto, M., & Palmer, S. (2014). Medicine and public health in Latin America: A History. Cambridge University Press.

Fernández Juárez, G. (2006). Salud e interculturalidad en América Latina: antropología de la salud y crítica intercultural. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha.

Foster, G. M. (1976). Disease etiologies in non‐western medical systems. American Anthropologist, 78(4), 773-782.

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Gavilán, V., Vigueras, P., Madariaga, C., & Parra, M. (2017). Interculturalidad, Tradiciones culturales y etnicidades. Tres nociones claves para comprender las políticas sanitarias en Chile. Chungará (Arica), 49(4), 477-482.

Giordano, C. (2014). Decolonizing Treatment in Psychiatry. In Migrants in Translation: Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy (pp. 71-100). Oakland, California: University of California Press. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt6wqbv3.8

Goldman, I. (2004). Shamans, Jaguars, and Thunderers. In Wilson P. (Ed.), Cubeo Hehénewa Religious Thought (pp. 300-344). Columbia University Press. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/gold13020.13

Good, B. (1994). Medicine, rationality, and experience: An anthropological perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Gere, C. (2017). Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good: From the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond. University of Chicago Press.

Herrera, C. E. G. (2018). Colonized Selves, Decolonizing Ontologies. In Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings (pp. 1-16). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Hernández Sáenz, L. M., & Foster, G. M. (2001). Curers and their cures in colonial New Spain and Guatemala: The Spanish component. In Huber, B. R. (2001). Mesoamerican healers, 243-269. University of Texas Press. (19-46).

Hill, Jonathan. 1992. A Musical Aesthetic of Ritual Curing in the Northwest Amazon. pp. 175- 210. In Matteson, J. and Baer, G. Portals of Power. Shamanism in South America. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque.

Jakobsen, M. (1999). Early Encounters Between Explorers, Missionaries and Shamans. In Shamanism: Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing (pp. 18-38). Berghahn Books. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qddd4.8

Knipper, M. (2006). El reto de la" medicina intercultural" y la historia de la “medicina tradicional" indígena contemporánea. In: Salud e interculturalidad en América Latina: Antropología de la salud y crítica intercultural (pp. 413-432). Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha.

Maclean, H., & Furst, P. (2012). Wixárika: Children of the ancestor gods. In The Shaman’s Mirror (pp. 19-24). University of Texas Press. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7560/728769.6

MacLean, H. (2001). Sacred Colors and Shamanic Vision among the Huichol Indians of Mexico. Journal of Anthropological Research, 57(3), 305-323. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3631425

Matteson, J. & Baer, G. (1992). Portals of Power. Shamanism in South America. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque. McNeill, B., & Cervantes, J. M. (Eds.). (2011). Latina/o healing practices: Mestizo and indigenous perspectives. Routledge.

Mendoza, R. G. (2003). Lords of the medicine bag: Medical science and traditional practice in ancient Peru and South America. In Medicine across cultures (pp. 225-257). Springer, Dordrecht.

Mignone, J., Bartlett, J., O'Neil, J., & Orchard, T. (2007). Best practices in intercultural health: five case studies in Latin America. Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine, 3(1), 31.

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Montenegro, R. A., & Stephens, C. (2006). Indigenous health in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Lancet, 367(9525), 1859-1869.

Nigenda, G., Mora-Flores, G., Aldama-López, S., & Orozco-Núñez, E. (2001). La práctica de la medicina tradicional en América Latina y el Caribe: el dilema entre regulación y tolerancia. salud pública de méxico, 43(1), 41-51.

Paul, B. D., & McMahon, C. (2001). Mesoamerican bonesetters. In Huber, B. R. (2001). Mesoamerican healers, 243-269. University of Texas Press.

Pedersen, D., & Baruffati, V. (1985). Health and traditional medicine cultures in Latin America and the Caribbean. Social Science & Medicine, 21(1), 5-12.

Perdiguero, E. (2006). Una reflexión sobre el pluralismo médico. Salud e interculturalidad en América Latina. Antropología de la salud y crítica intercultural, 33-49.

Philip, A. (1994). La curación chamánica: Experiencias de un psiquiatra con la medicina aborigen americana. Buenos Aires: Planeta.

Santamaría, A. (2017). Memory and resilience among Uitoto women: closed baskets and gentle words to invoke the pain of the Colombian Amazon. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 12(3), 315-330.

Shoemaker, A. (2014). Ayahuasca medicine: The shamanic world of amazonian sacred plant healing. Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press.

Souza, M. L. P. D., & Orellana, J. D. Y. (2012). Suicide among the indigenous people in Brazil: a hidden public health issue. Revista brasileira de psiquiatria, 34(4), 489-490.

Thalji, N. K., & Yakushko, O. (2017). Indigenous Women of the Amazon Forest: The Woman Shaman of the Yawanawa Tribe. Women & Therapy, 1-18.

Trotter, R. T. (2001). Curanderismo: A picture of Mexican-American folk healing. The Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine, 7(2), 129-131.

Turnbull, D. (2003). Masons, tricksters and cartographers: Comparative studies in the sociology of scientific and indigenous knowledge. Routledge: London and New York.

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***IMPORTANT INFORMATION***

Please read carefully:

Students with Documented Disabilities. Students who have a disability (documented by OSD), which may necessitate an academic accommodation or the use of auxiliary aids and services in class should contact the professor as soon as possible; timely notice is needed to arrange for appropriate accommodations.

Email policy. The instructor will try to respond to your emails within 24 to 48 hours. Please write ANSC 106 and the specific purpose of the email in the subject line. Email is also the best way to set up an appointment with me in case you cannot make office hours.

Honor Code. As part of the academic work you should always put quotes when writing other’s exact words. If you rephrase a definition, explanation, or example you should cite the original author and her/his work. Students agree that by taking this course all required papers will be subject to submission for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism. All submitted papers will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such papers. Use of the Turnitin.com service is subject to the terms of use agreement posted on the Turnitin.com site.

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Classroom policies. Computer use should be strictly limited to consultation of course materials and composition of class notes. Use of computers for internet surfing, texting, email, facebook chat, gchat, or any other internet activities are not permitted. This is a matter of academic integrity for the classroom to engage fully in the course without distraction or “multi-tasking.” Anyone observed using their computers for activities other than those directly relevant to seminar discussion will be asked to leave the classroom and recorded as absent. Be sure to silence your cell phones before entering classroom. Anyone observed using their phone during class will be asked to leave and recorded as absent.

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COURSE SCHEDULE

Week Topics Readings Assignment

1 04/02 Introduction - historical perspective on indigenous medicines

Syllabus

Montenegro, R. A., & Stephens, C. (2006). Indigenous health in Latin America and the Caribbean. 

Suggested Reading:Pedersen, D., & Baruffati, V. (1985). Health and traditional medicine cultures in Latin America and the Caribbean. 

During this week you should:

-revise the syllabus.-Check that you have access to tritoned.-Start working on the readings.

04/04 Extra Credit ActivityUC San Diego Public Health Research DaySchool of Medicine CampusMedical Education and Telemedicine Building (MET)REGISTRATION REQUIRED:https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PubHealthResDay

04/04 Framing indigenous medicines: modernity, colonialism, and science

Turnbull, D. (2003) From rationality to messiness: Rethinking technoscientific knowledge. [17pp]

Gere, C. (2017) chapter 1 [38pp]

Suggested Reading:

Jakobsen, M. (1999). Early Encounters Between Explorers, Missionaries and Shamans.

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2 04/09 Anthropology & Indigenous Medicines

Good, B. (1994) The problem of belief.

04/11 Hernandez, Luz and Foster, George. 2001. “Curers and their cures in Colonial New Spain and Guatemala”, pp. 19.46.

Suggested Reading:Foster, G. M. (1976). Disease etiologies in non‐western medical systems. 

04/13 Indigenous Healing Geographies

Upload homework #1

3 04/16 Indigenous forms of medicines and conception of health and healing

Thunder shaman - chapter 1 & 2

04/18 Mapuche medicine (Argentina and Chile).

Thunder shaman - chapter 3 Deadline Option B: Paper Topic (1 page)

04/20 Thunder shaman - chapter 4 & 6

04/22 Extra Credit ActivityUC Global Health Day (tickets are sold out - need to be already registered)

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4 04/23 Mapuche medicine (Argentina and Chile). CONT’

Thunder shaman - chapter 7 & 8 Option A: MIDTERM 1 (take-home) Materials from weeks 1 to 3

04/25

Illness and health in the Amazon

Goldman, I. (2004). Shamans, Jaguars, and Thunderers.

Hill, Jonathan. 1992. A Musical Aesthetic of Ritual Curing in the Northwest Amazon. pp. 175- 210.

04/27 Thalji, N. K., & Yakushko, O. (2017). Indigenous Women of the Amazon Forest: The Woman Shaman of the Yawanawa Tribe.

Brown, M. (2014). Four Weddings and a Funeral. (pp. 122-150).

5 04/30 Santamaría, A. (2017). Memory and resilience among Uitoto women: closed baskets and gentle words to invoke the pain of the Colombian Amazon. 

05/02 Souza, M. L. P. D., & Orellana, J. D. Y. (2012). Suicide among the indigenous people in Brazil: a hidden public health issue. 

Option B: Upload Paper Outline

05/04 “Plants of the gods” - The Magic Drink of the Amazon

Upload homework #2

6 05/07 Indigenous medicines & inequities

Tell me why my children died - Introduction and Part 1

05/09

05/11

7 05/14Political Economy of healing

Tell me why my children died: part 2 and conclusions

05/16

05/18 Upload homework #3

8 05/21

Illness and Healing in Mesoamerica

Chevalier, J., & Bain, A. (2003). Frights and Chaneques.

Maclean, H., & Furst, P. (2012). Wixárika: Children of the ancestor gods.

Suggested Reading:MacLean, H. (2001). Sacred Colors and Shamanic Vision among the Huichol Indians of Mexico. 

Option A:Take-home Midterm #2 (materials from weeks 4 to 7)

05/23 In-class video: Documentary Film. The Last Bonesetter. An Encounter with Don Felipe, dir. Adam Booher (Peru/US, 27m, 2015)

Paul Benjamin and McMahon Clancy. 2001. Mesoamerican Bonesetters.

Option B:Upload Literature Review

05/25 **No class** Take home assignment (homework 4)

9 05/28 OBSERVED HOLIDAY ** NO CLASS **

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05/30 Mesoamerican Indigenous Medicines

Upload homework #4

06/01

Andean medical systems

Mendoza, R. G. (2003). Lords of the medicine bag: Medical science and traditional practice in ancient Peru and South America.

Caqueo-Urízar, A., Breslau, J., & Gilman, S. E. (2015). Beliefs about the causes of schizophrenia among Aymara and non-Aymara patients and their primary caregivers in the Central–Southern Andes. 

10 06/04 Cultural competency, interculturality and medical pluralism

Mignone, J., Bartlett, J., O'Neil, J., & Orchard, T. (2007). Best practices in intercultural health: five case studies in Latin America. 

Option A:Take-home Midterm #3 (materials from weeks 8-10)

06/06 Regulation and Legitimation of Health Care Systems

Babis, D. (2014). The role of civil society organizations in the institutionalization of indigenous medicine in Bolivia. 

06/08 Decolonizing medicine Giordano, C. (2014). Decolonizing Treatment in Psychiatry.

Suggested Reading:Herrera, C. E. G. (2018). Colonized Selves, Decolonizing Ontologies.

All pending assignments and extra-credit activities due by the end of the day (11:59pm)

11 Option B: Upload Final Research Paper

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