No. 48 (2022)
Articles

Territorial forms of community organization that partially replace the State in the context of the pandemic. The case of communities part of the Union of Black Organizations of the North of Esmeraldas (UONNE)

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  • María Soledad Varea,
  • Lennyn Santacruz Vega
María Soledad Varea
Universidad Central del Ecuador. Quito. Ecuador
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Lennyn Santacruz Vega
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Valencia. España. Universidad Central del Ecuador. Quito. Ecuador
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Published 2022-06-30

Keywords

  • intercultural health,
  • territories,
  • ancestral health,
  • Covid-19,
  • marginal community,
  • Esmeraldas
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Varea, M. S., & Santacruz Vega, L. . . . (2022). Territorial forms of community organization that partially replace the State in the context of the pandemic. The case of communities part of the Union of Black Organizations of the North of Esmeraldas (UONNE) . Revista Sarance, 48, 133-152. https://doi.org/10.51306/ioasarance.048.06

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Abstract

This article addresses how in the territory of Telembí in the north of the province of Esmeraldas, its inhabitants created their own ways of circulating knowledge, appropriated technologies such as cell phones and digital media to inform ways of treating COVID through ancestral medicine. In fact, the medicines granted by the state did not arrive massively there. In such a way that people interpreted the use of health from their own culture. 

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