The study shows how healers from the Peasant Union of Azuay (UNASAY-E) in Ecuador, faced with the needs of today's world, raise the need to continue training; and they make known their vision of what knowledge they require to care for the body, mind and spirit. The research is ethnographic and uses tools such as semi-structured interviews and focus groups. The results reveal that the knowledge inherited from generation to generation is in permanent territorial and collective construction. It also explains which resources, natural medicines and treatments are applied for healing. The investigation concludes that ancestral medicine continues to be devalued and folklorized, even though, on the one hand, it is recognized in the national Constitution and, on the other, it confers well-being to the social structure.

The article offers an overview of the Notarial Fund of the National Historical Archive, shaped by a diversity of manuscripts associated with the wills and decisions of the grantors during the 18th century in Cuenca, Ecuador. The relationship between scribes and grantors is a constant theme, revealing dialogues, questions, answers, confessions, and silences that gradually constructed meanings and images intended for both the present and posterity. The practice of notarial work was not only marked by a moral and ethical authority, limited to certifying or attesting to goods and property, but also established specific dynamics between notaries and grantors. Finally, the findings show that the notarial offices served as spaces for the circulation of people, goods, documents, and meanings, which allowed the grantors to either strengthen or negotiate their position of enunciation as they acces...