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Saavedra, Paz (2022) The entangled past and future of midwifery and cuys in Ecuadorian Andes. Green Letters : Studies in Ecocriticism, 26 (1). pp. 44-55. doi:10.1080/14688417.2022.2034515 ISSN 1468-8417.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2022.2034515
Abstract
The paper describes a healing practice with the cuy (guinea pig), and how it has maintained, continued and re-invented vital connections of people with their territories amidst oppressive structures, such as colonialism, capitalism and patriarchy. Moreover, I discuss how, through the ancestral relation to the cuy, people in rural Andean communities connect both to their past and future in meaningful ways. The paper highlights the role of rural women in maintaining and expanding the richness and diversity of the entanglements of humans and nonhumans shaping their territories. Furthermore, it argues that, by engaging with these stories, care can be mobilised to sustain practices that cultivate futures that are able to nurture a much-needed resiliency of peoples in the world amidst global crises, such as pandemics and climate change.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RG Gynecology and obstetrics S Agriculture > SF Animal culture |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Midwifery -- Ecuador, Traditional medicine -- Ecuador, Guinea Pigs -- Ecuador | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Green Letters : Studies in Ecocriticism | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1468-8417 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 9 February 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 26 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Number of Pages: | 12 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 44-55 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/14688417.2022.2034515 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Copyright Holders: | ASLE-UKI | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 29 March 2022 |
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