La etnomedicina en Mendoza: el sistema de conocimiento médico de un pueblo afrovenezolano

摘要

The study of ethnomedical systems in Afro-Venezuelan people has been little explored. Commonly, the few approaches that address the issue, highlight the phenomenal therapeutic fact of traditional medicines, losing the comprehensive coherence that the medical knowledge systems possess. The present work develops the experience of the ethnomedical system of Mendoza, an Afro-Venezuelan community gestated in the settlement of cocoa plantations, located in the Municipality of Acevedo del Estado Miranda.