دراسات إنسانية واجتماعية
Volume 10, Numéro 1, Pages 463-472
2021-01-16

The Role Of Cultural Representations In Choosing The Traditional Therapeutic Practices In Mostaganem (an Anthropological Study Of The Disease Sciatica)

Authors : Behtita Mohammed El Amine .

Abstract

Abstract (English): The study at hand sheds light on an important aspect of the traditional therapeutic practices by searching for the motives that make the patient resort to traditional treatment despite the availability of formal medical treatment. The methodology adopted is an anthropological approach, where in order to achieve the objectives of the study, the researcherused observation, interview and photography as data collection tools .The study was conducted on the research population of the region of Mostaganem, consisting of eleven traditional healers and twenty-three patients.

Keywords

traditional therapy ; formal medical treatment ; sciatica ; therapeutic practice ; cultural perceptions