Pain subjects, land of dignity

Abstract

This article starts with a commitment to understanding the diachronic setting that a specific population makes on their "health experience". This community is the village of Campo de Nijar (Almería, Spain), where the researcher conducted an ethnographic work collecting the stories of the indigenous population of the municipality. This ethnographic work alternates the reconstruction of collective memory and personal narratives. The latter are keys to understanding the complex intersubjective mechanisms that influence both conscious and unconscious in the construction of the prevailing health senses of the population of a territory resignified throughout history.

Keywords

• antropología médica
• comunicación
• medicalización, memoria colectiva
• ruralidad
• semiótica
• salud