Zoque Ethnomedicine in Times of Covid-19 Pandemic

The work is an anthropological study that seeks to understand, from a qualitative approach that privilege the perspective of social actors, the perceptions of the traditionalist Catholic Zoques of Chiapas and how they explain the Covid-19 pandemic. We set out to know the infectious process and the possible formulas to reduce the risk of contagion from the approaches of ethnomedicine and the physiology of the respiratory and digestive systems. In the same way, the causal agent that makes the organism sick and the construction of the clinical estructure of the desease, as well as the palliative measures. Finally, we were interested in the way to prevent, treat and experience the condition, through testimonies collected virtually.