Introduction. There is a series of changes in the lifestyle of indigenous peoples that are caused by the processes of urbanization and westernization, which have generated modifications in the epidemiological profile of the people. These changes are an explanation to diseases that didn’t exist before in ethnic groups, such as the case of diabetes in the Wixarika people. Methodology. Exhaustive interviews were made, and from transcription they were codified with the aid of the Atlas-ti program. Subsequently, categories for interpretation and theorization were formulated. Results. Wixarika people were found to consider diabetes as a disease that belongs to mestizos and not to them, since this malady arrived to their communities along with the processes of modernization and the Western culture. Therefore, their marakames (curanderos) can’t heal it and only a mestizo physician can treat it. Conclusion. From the incorporation of the Wixarika people into the global processes, some cultural elements have been modified, such as the ways to produce food, eating and doing physical activity. Therefore, diseases like diabetes type II come up in their communities.
García-Serrano, V., Crocker-Sagastume, R., & García de Alba, J. (2017). Beliefs about diabetes mellitus type 2 in the Wixarika ethnic group of the western Mexico. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (35). Retrieved from https://nuevosfoliosbioetica.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/46151
