%0 Journal Article
%T EL DISCURSO SOBRE EL FEN¨®MENO DE LA M¨¦DIUM UNIDAD EN LAS RELIGIONES AFROCUBANAS
%A VON WANGENHEIM
%A HUBERTA
%J Revista Colombiana de Antropolog¨ªa
%D 2009
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X the purpose of this article is to examine the discourse of practitioners of afrocuban religionsin la havana about the m¨¦dium unidad, a particular way of perception attributed to the influence of spirits, which plays a key role as a particular way of experiencing the world and reality in cuban society. the concept of m¨¦dium unidad as a socially constructed practice of perception represents an alternative to ideas and social ways of dealing with such a phenomenon in western-scientific contexts, particularly in biomedical psychiatry which understands it as hallucinatory pathologies. the text attempts to show the role that the m¨¦dium unidad plays in cuban society by exploring religious discourses and describing afrocuban ritual practice, which assigns it intersubjective meaning and broad social acceptance.
%K afrocuban religions
%K spiritism
%K anthropology of the senses
%K mental health
%K the social construction of psychic normality
%K anthropology of performance.
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