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      Un accidente de tránsito visto a través de los ojos del chamanismo amazónico Translated title: A traffic accident seen through the eyes of Amazonic shamanism

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          Resumen Este trabajo se desarrolló con las comunidades indígenas del río Mirití-Paraná, un pequeño afluente del río Caquetá (Japura), en el noroccidente de la cuenca amazónica en Colombia. Lo que presento a continuación es el itinerario terapéutico de Enio Yukuna, un hombre mayor que sufrió un accidente de tránsito y que al momento de relatar lo que le había ocurrido se remontó en su memoria varias décadas atrás para explicar que el principio de su mal se dio cuando fue a cazar a una danta (tapir) en un salado. Su itinerario y la narración del suceso es pertinente, pues habla de la forma en que se concibe el territorio, la cosmopolítica, los procesos ontológicos para aprender el chamanismo y también de la interacción con la biomedicina y el sistema médico occidental. Así, este hombre hace explícitos los procesos propios de curación que se dan en su área geográfica, pasando por chamanes de diferentes etnias y variados conocimientos y que se comportan de manera distinta ante su mal. Habla también de la complementariedad de género con su mujer y de los prejuicios hacia la migración de los jóvenes, y finalmente cuenta cómo fue remitido a Bogotá para ser atendido por su dolencia. Es una narración de gran riqueza y complejidad que nos da la posibilidad de navegar por los diversos universos amazónicos con relación a la salud de un individuo.

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          Abstract This work was carried out with the indigenous community of the Mirití-Paraná river, a short tributary of the Caquetá (Japura) river, located northwest of Colombia’s Amazon basin. I set forth the therapeutic journey of Enio Yukuna, an old man who had a traffic accident and, when telling the story of what happened, recalled that his misfortune began some decades ago when he went tapir hunting in a clay lick. His story and journey are relevant because he talks about how he conceives the land, cosmopolitics, the ontological processes to learn shamanism, and of the interaction of biomedicine and the Western medical system. In doing so, he speaks explicitly of the typical healing processes that take place in his region, going through shamans of different ethnic groups and varied knowledge that behave in different ways vis-à-vis his affliction. He also talks about gender complementarity with his wife and about prejudice against youth migration, and finally tells how he was sent to Bogota to be treated for his ailment. It is an incredible story that gives us the opportunity to explore the multiple Amazonic universes regarding a person’s health.

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              Witoto ash salts from the Amazon.

              This article presents the results of an anthropological and ethnobotanical study of the vegetable salts used by the Witoto Indians of the Amazon. It thoroughly documents the species used, the processing of the salts, their chemical composition and their anthropological, nutritional and medicinal relevance. Salts from 57 plant species known to the Witoto were processed using the same materials and techniques employed by the Indians: burning plant material, lixiviating the ashes with water, and boiling down the brine to desiccate the salt. Chemical analyses of macroelements of 49 of the salts, and of microelements of 24, were conducted. Tests on the taste of the salts as perceived by the native persons were carried out. Average ratio ashes/raw material was 3.05% (from 0.71% to 10.14%); average ratio dry salt/ashes was 11% (from 1% to 37%). All the samples analyzed presented a high proportion of potassium (26.9-44.6%); contents of phosphorus, sodium, calcium and magnesium were less than 1%; contents of carbonate, chloride and sulfate varied greatly among the salts. Boron, molybdenum and vanadium were present in all or almost all the samples analyzed; copper, barium and strontium were also frequent; manganese, zinc and iron were less frequent. There is a correlation between the concentration of the three anions and the perceived taste of the salts, the "sweet" flavor of chloride being the preferred taste. Our research shows that the culinary function of these salts is secondary to their ritual, medicinal and cosmological meaning. The search for chloride is one of the reasons to produce and consume these salts; other reasons are also important: their alkaline pH, which liberates the alkaloid of the tobacco with which the salts are mixed; and their contents of microelements, which, although not discernible in taste, are inferred from symbolic associations of the species used. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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                Journal
                anthro
                Anthropologica
                Anthropologica
                Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales (Lima, , Peru )
                0254-9212
                January 2020
                : 38
                : 44
                : 13-41
                Affiliations
                [1] orgnameInstituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas SINCHI Colombia jfguhl@ 123456gmail.com
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                S0254-92122020000100013 S0254-9212(20)03804400013
                10.18800/anthropologica.202001.002
                8532bbe1-534e-447b-b220-496a27226a18

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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                : 12 April 2020
                : 28 April 2020
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                Mirití-Paraná,Yukuna,modelo explicativo.,shamanism,therapeutic itinerary,ontology,self-care,intermedicality,explanatory model.,chamanismo,itinerario terapéutico,ontología,intermedicalidad,autoatención

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