Abstract

INCAURGARAT, María Florencia. El “viento” como agente generador de padecimiento: Reflexiones sobre el periodo de posparto con relación al “pensamiento chino”. Avá [online]. 2016, n.29, pp.175-197. ISSN 1851-1694.

As a result of the reflections and discussions around the concept of ontology in contemporary Anthropology, and in the context of an ethnography in course made on the Chinese community in the city of Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, in the present article we will take as a starting point of analysis, a system of practices developed during the postpartum period called Zuò Yuè Zi, based on maintaining the equilibrium of yīn and yáng and in which the Elements of Nature as the wind intervene in the human body generating illness. We shall take this case as a starting point to be able to think how the debate over the nature culture division is set through the Chinese way of thinking and how its polarities are opposed to the dualisms of the Western world which presuppose the ontological separation between nature and culture and characterize biomedical conceptions.

Keywords : Ontology; Chinese thought; Health/illness; Puerperium.

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