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alucema, cargaviento y otros. Entonces los Yauyos, mantenían importantes mitos y conocimientos de medicina alternativa ancestral para el tratamiento de enfermedades y accidentes en los recorridos del viaje.
Palabras clave: Trueque, Reciprocidad, Mitos, Etnomedicina, Enfermedades y plantas medicinales.
BARTER, MYTHS AND ETHNOMEDICINE IN THE ANDEAN EXCHANGE SYSTEM
Abstrac: The Andean economic system, based on the exchange of goods( barter) and services( reciprocity)( Fonseca, 1972; Mayer, 2004). Where the relationships between socio-ecological spaces, the mechanisms of exchange, seasons, routes, symmetrical and asymmetrical reciprocal systems, pastoralism, minga and festivities are addressed. Two important aspects are also present, such as the myths where they narrate that the gods ' hills descended to the inter-Andean valleys and coastal strips with loads of minerals, agricultural products and textiles to be exchanged with liquors, fruits, flowers and others. In the same way, they establish bonds of ceremonial kinship, being friends, even love affairs between these gods, which sometimes caused fights until they killed each other, giving rise to hills, lagoons or rivers. And the other aspect is the ethnomedicine used by the muleteers in the long days of bartering, including the symbolic exchange of sick people handing over the travelers to take them away and these were rescued through goods. And so the muleteers resorted to the use of plants, animals, lichens and minerals to treat various ailments and diseases such as: respiratory infections, gastrointestinal infections, wounds, fractures and a set of diseases called: bad wind, bad air, contraire, heat and air, which are related to climatic phenomena such as wind, cloudiness, sunshine, rain and others, which unbalance health and for this they used camelid urine, bird droppings, various medicinal plants such as: chutanco, alucema, cargaviento and others. At that time, the Yauyos maintained important myths and knowledge of ancestral alternative medicine for the treatment of diseases and accidents on the routes of the journey.
Keywords: Barter, Reciprocity, Myths, Ethnomedicine, Diseases and medicinal plants
1. Introducción
El presente artículo tiene por objetivo describir y analizar el sistema de trueque que ocurre en la comunidad de Tanta. Tiene relevancia debido a la presencia del sistema vial andino, que atraviesa de Xauxa a
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