MEDICINE Blog
Wednesday 18th October 2017
Last month I was able to spend a weekend at the indigenous township of Salasaka, in Tungurahua province, at the home of Jorge Caisabanda and family in the Huasalata community. We are planning to start the survey phase of the project in one of the communities here in December.
Thursday 3rd August 2017
With my return from Seville at the end of June, the first formal phase of the project representing the analysis of bibliographic, archaeological and ethnohistorical records concluded.
Wednesday 28th June 2017
To visit Seville is to gain firsthand a deeper insight into and experience of the source and nature of Christian Catholic belief systems which were imposed upon Amerindian cultures at the time of the conquest by Spain in the 16th century.
Wednesday 28th June 2017
March, April and May have been the most dynamic months for the project, starting with the visit to the Archivos Históricos Arzobispales in Lima early March, followed by the Society for American Archaeology Meetings in Vancouver early April.
Wednesday 19th April 2017
Only a week after my return from Lima I was back on the plane again, this time heading way up north to Canada. It felt rather a culture shock, to say nothing of a climatic shock too.
Friday 7th April 2017
In the first week of March I set off for Lima, Peru, to visit the Archivo Histórico Arzobispal de Lima (Historical Archive of the Archbishopric of Lima) in order to search the ethnohistorical record directly for first-hand accounts of indigenous Andean religious specialists, who found themselves
Friday 3rd March 2017
The spectacular mountain setting of the huge ramp mound site at Hacienda Zuleta (www.zuleta.com) in Ecuador’s northern sierra, Imbabura province, was the location for my next experience of traditional healing.
Thursday 26th January 2017
Taita Punta Rumi is a vast rock overhanging a steep mountainside, which has been sacred to the local indigenous Salasaka community probably for hundreds of years, since before the arrival of the Spanish in 1534, when it would have been called a wak'a (also huaca).
Thursday 26th January 2017
Following our trip out to Guagaje and Tingo Pucará, it had been arranged that the three of us - Diego Quiroga, Fernando Ortega and myself - would go to visit some of the indigenous communities in the Salasaca region of Ecuador’s central sierra.
Wednesday 25th January 2017
January has been a very productive month for the project, with good progress made both in finalising the initial ethnohistorical and archaeological background research, and in laying the foundation for the future phase of fieldwork with regional indigenous communities, later this year.
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