VIEJAS Y EMBUSTERAS. CURANDERAS EN EXPEDIENTES INQUISITORIALES DE MICHOACÁN (SIGLO XVIII)


Por: López-Ridaura C.

Publicada: 1 ene 2023
Categoría: Literature and literary theory

Resumen:
At a time when access to professional health services was inaccessible to a large part of the population, the treatment of diseases was in the hands of men and women who considered able of providing relief to patients, either thanks to an innate gift, such as saludadores, or from empirical knowledge, in the case of healers. Although the office of restoring health to the sick was not an illicit activity, often the people who exercised it ended up involved in accusations before the Holy Office, mainly due to two reasons: the first is because of the unorthodox character of the treatments they applied, which made this character assimilate to others, like sorcerers; the second, even more frequent, is due to a failed cure, which prompted the dissatisfied patient to denounce the healer as a deceiver. This study will review cases of women considered, by themselves or by others, as healers, who were denounced to the inquisitorial authorities in the bishopric of Michoacán in the eighteenth century, in order to show that the profile of the old woman is the most characteristic of this character. © 2023 Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. All rights reserved.

Filiaciones:
López-Ridaura C.:
 ENES Morelia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
ISSN: 02120429
Editorial
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, España
Tipo de documento: Article
Volumen: 42 Número:
Páginas: 249-264