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  1. Article ; Online: Diabetes, alcohol abuse, and inequality in southern Mexico

    Laura Montesi

    Medicine Anthropology Theory, Vol 5, Iss

    2018  Volume 1

    Abstract: Despite the serious persistence of infectious diseases, low-income, indigenous people in southern Mexico are increasingly burdened by noncommunicable diseases, type 2 diabetes in particular. Most studies on diabetes and indigenous peoples focus on the ... ...

    Abstract Despite the serious persistence of infectious diseases, low-income, indigenous people in southern Mexico are increasingly burdened by noncommunicable diseases, type 2 diabetes in particular. Most studies on diabetes and indigenous peoples focus on the dietary transition they are experiencing, with an emphasis on the biological role of processed foods and soft drinks on the onset of this disease. Little, however, is known about the synergistic interaction of alcohol abuse, diabetes, and inequality. This article adopts a syndemic approach to investigate how alcohol abuse among women and men in a rural, indigenous community in southern Mexico contributes to exacerbating health outcomes. Based on a one-year qualitative ethnographic study, this article advocates the use of a syndemic approach into the study of noncommunicable diseases because it offers critical insights into political economy, individual and social suffering, and the biosocial nature of health and illness.
    Keywords diabetes ; alcohol abuse ; syndemics ; mexico ; Anthropology ; GN1-890 ; Medicine (General) ; R5-920
    Subject code 360
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher University of Edinburgh Library
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  2. Article ; Online: La diabetes como metáfora de vulnerabilidad. El caso de los ikojts de Oaxaca

    Laura Montesi

    Revista Pueblos y Fronteras Digital, Vol 12, Iss

    2017  Volume 23

    Abstract: Este artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación etnográfica de corte fenomenológico (2013/2014), que exploró las representaciones socioculturales de la diabetes y las experiencias de vida de los afligidos en una comunidad ikojts en Oaxaca. El ... ...

    Abstract Este artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación etnográfica de corte fenomenológico (2013/2014), que exploró las representaciones socioculturales de la diabetes y las experiencias de vida de los afligidos en una comunidad ikojts en Oaxaca. El estudio sugiere que para muchos miembros de ese grupo la diabetes es una expresión de la vulnerabilidad, síntoma y metáfora de cambios sufridos por ellos recientemente. Se describe cómo la diabetes permite a los afligidos articular la experiencia de la vulnerabilidad en múltiples niveles y se invita a incluir la etnicidad en el entendimiento de las epidemiologías desiguales del país, evitando nuevas formas de esencialización racial y cultural.
    Keywords diabetes tipo 2 ; vulnerabilidad ; pueblos indígenas ; ikojts ; Social Sciences ; H ; Social sciences (General) ; H1-99
    Language English
    Publishing date 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
    Document type Article ; Online
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  3. Article ; Online: Situating Latin American Critical Epidemiology in the Anthropocene

    Laura Montesi / Maria Paula Prates / Sahra Gibbon / Lina R. Berrio

    Medicine Anthropology Theory, Vol 10, Iss 2, Pp 1-

    The Case of COVID-19 Vaccines and Indigenous Collectives in Brazil and Mexico

    2023  Volume 29

    Abstract: Diverse histories and traditions of critical epidemiology in Latin America provide an important, although underutilised, alternative framework for engaging with the embodied health inequalities of the Anthropocene. Taking COVID-19 as ‘a paradigmatic ... ...

    Abstract Diverse histories and traditions of critical epidemiology in Latin America provide an important, although underutilised, alternative framework for engaging with the embodied health inequalities of the Anthropocene. Taking COVID-19 as ‘a paradigmatic example of an Anthropocene disease’ (O’Callaghan-Gordo and Antó 2020) and drawing on ethnographic research in Brazil and Mexico on vaccination campaigns among Indigenous Peoples, we review and analyse the scope and limits of Latin American critical epidemiology in addressing Anthropocene health. While there are intersecting and parallel dynamics between diverse national and regional histories of epidemiology, we argue that the relatively differential focus on political economy, political ecology, and colonialism/coloniality in Latin American critical epidemiology, alongside the attention to non-western disease experiences and understandings, constitute a counterpoint to biomedical and specific ‘Euro-American’ epidemiological approaches. At the same time, Indigenous understandings of health/disease processes are intimately connected with territory protection, diplomacy with non-human entities, and embodied memories of violence. We examine how this presents new and challenging questions for critical epidemiology, particularly in how the ‘social’ is defined and how to address both social justice and social difference whilst also navigating the biopolitical challenges of state intervention in the era of Anthropocene health.
    Keywords anthropocene health ; critical epidemiology ; covid-19 ; indigenous health ; latin america ; Anthropology ; GN1-890 ; Medicine (General) ; R5-920
    Subject code 390
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher University of Edinburgh Library
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  4. Article ; Online: Embodied Inequalities of the Anthropocene

    Jean Segata / Ceres Víctora / Paola Sesia / Laura Montesi / Jennie Gamlin / Sahra Gibbon

    Medicine Anthropology Theory, Vol 10, Iss 2, Pp 1-

    2023  Volume 30

    Abstract: ... by Jennie Gamlin, Laura Montesi, Sahra Gibbon, Paola Sesia, Jean Segata, and Ceres Victora. ...

    Abstract Introduction to the special issue 'Embodied Inequalities of the Anthropocene', guest edited by Jennie Gamlin, Laura Montesi, Sahra Gibbon, Paola Sesia, Jean Segata, and Ceres Victora.
    Keywords anthropocene ; inequalities ; social justice ; critical medical anthropology ; environment ; Anthropology ; GN1-890 ; Medicine (General) ; R5-920
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher University of Edinburgh Library
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  5. Article ; Online: La costumbre y el evangelio

    Laura Montesi

    Revista de Antropología y Sociología Virajes, Vol 14, Iss

    Estrategias múltiples de transformación religiosa entre los Huaves de Oaxaca (México).

    2012  Volume 2

    Abstract: El presente artículo tiene como objetivo señalar el carácter dinámico, inestable y vital del campo religioso que, sobre todo en el ámbito indígena, se está a la vez fragmentando y remodelando, proceso que se inscribe dentro de un contexto mucho más ... ...

    Abstract El presente artículo tiene como objetivo señalar el carácter dinámico, inestable y vital del campo religioso que, sobre todo en el ámbito indígena, se está a la vez fragmentando y remodelando, proceso que se inscribe dentro de un contexto mucho más amplio de inéditos, acelerados y múltiples cambios sociales. El recién y consolidado avance del protestantismo y la trasformación en el seno del catolicismo son las dos caras, quizás conflictivas entre ellas, del mismo proceso en desarrollo: el fenómeno religioso es un interlocutor privilegiado de la (post) modernidad y como tal es generador de nuevos discursos y prácticas sociales.
    Keywords pluralismo religioso ; catolicismo ; protestantismo ; comunidades indígenas ; cambio social ; Anthropology ; GN1-890
    Language English
    Publishing date 2012-12-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Universidad de Caldas
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