Well-being and healing:

Anthropological reflections about body and health in a training in medicinal plants

Abstract

This article recovers the theoretical-analytical stakes of the ethnographic research that I carried out for my Final Degree Work in Anthropology during 2018 and 2019. Its objective was to make a socio-anthropological analysis about the practices and representations around the body and health that were elaborated in a training in medicinal plants, dictated in a town of Sierras Chicas, Córdoba. To do this, I made indepth interviews, participant observation of all the meetings and bibliographic and audiovisual investigation about the materials offered there. This writing recovers the analysis of this practices and meanings around the health-disease-care processes, where from a critical stance towards biomedical knowledgepower, health was understood in a holistic and multidimensional way, exceeding the mere absence of disease. It also investigates the body experiences lived there, related to the medicinal plants use and consumption. Finally, it explores the relationships with other non-human beings, mainly plants.