Pasando por comadrona, midwife y médico: el itinerario terapéutico de una embarazada en Guatemala

• Autor: Fleischer, Soraya
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2006
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: PUCP-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.14657/80106
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/2086/2018; https://doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.200601.003
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Guatemala; Parteras; Parto; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.04.03

In this article, I discuss, according to the theoretical-analytical framework of Menéndez (1994), how women and their midwives follow a plural therapeutical itinerary during pregnancy and labor in the region of Antigua, Guatemala. I look forward to present and analyze an example of a delivery that happened during my research, first, as a paradigmatic example of dialogue, not always friendly and pacific, among various local medical systems: a Mayan comadrona (the local midwife), a ladino doctor and a foreign nurse-midwife. Second, this delivery illustrates an encounter that brings together ethnic, class, and gender relations influences by power and conflict that has structured the material and symbolic construction of this "young" country.