Oral sources, scents and home remedies

This work presents the way orality can be used as a tool to make history, bringing its value especially for studies mentality, private life or popular classes, between others. This study develops itself, according with an inter¬view that was made to a woman who lived in Pandi- Cundinamarca durin...

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Autor Principal: Nensthiel Orjuela, Andrea Catalina
Formato: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: spa
eng
Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana 2014
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Acceso en línea: http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/memoysociedad/article/view/7812
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Sumario: This work presents the way orality can be used as a tool to make history, bringing its value especially for studies mentality, private life or popular classes, between others. This study develops itself, according with an inter¬view that was made to a woman who lived in Pandi- Cundinamarca during the first half of the, 20th. Century. It tries to understand the cultural wealth that is found in the practice of the traditional rural medicine as the homemade medicine. Also tries to analyze the relation between the sense of the smell, the memory and the meaning of the smells that projects cultural constructions that are surrounded by dense and sometimes by unknown thoughts models. In this way, it tries to bring the sense of the smell as a way how human being notice, understand and preserve the world and their own life experiences. It has special characteristics as it reveals secrets that were hidden and unknown in the social body, which is not easy to express through visual and hearing sense.