Wixárika Practices of Medical Syncretism: An Ontological Proposal for Health in the Anthropocene

• DOI: 10.17157/mat.10.2.6912
• Publication Date: 2023-07-13T10:28:54Z
• Authors: Jennie Gamlin
• Keywords: Anthropocene; Biopower; Sociality

By understanding a community’s medical system, we are able to see its body ontology and how the people within it live in relation world, historically constructed ideological position. Modernisation development have restructured Indigenous communities devalued traditional ontologies, including systems. This is global pattern, where historical power relationships defined coloniality of being from this, organised healthcare, governance, education patriarchal capitalist universals. These social structures underlie Anthropocene geological epoch planetary crisis. Wixárika polytheistic sociality; their system treats spiritual origins illness, attending cohesion society humans, supernatural, flora fauna. subalternised by dominant universals biomedicine, which treat as separate environment society. I refer this epistemological inequality ontological Anthropocene. Wixaritari use both allopathic systems, following non-hierarchical syncretic wellbeing. Giving equal importance systems may be framework with implications for wellbeing beyond human health. Research Article proposes that centring sociality more-than-human can reconceive our broadest sense.