Cultural hybridization in health, meanings and senses. A look at the discomfort in the world Kychwa and Shuar de Cuenca, El Tambo and Saraguro.

This project seeks to analyze the cultural changes, beliefs, perspectives and practices of the communities of El Tambo, Cuenca, and Saraguro related to the meaning and sense of discomfort as a product of cultural hybridization. It is an inter-institutional effort directed by the University of Cuenca in coordination with the municipalities and the Department of Intercultural Health of Zonal VI, in a study of a mixed qualitative approach; The theories of cultural hybridization, symbolic violence, in an interesting challenge to build and deconstruct elements of the Andean-Amazonian worldview related to discomfort and their contexts, in the populations Cañari, Saraguro, Shuar and Mestiza, from the intercultural coexistence are, are tools.

13th UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PROJECT COMPETITION