Browsing by Author "Brito Roby, Liliana Alexandra"

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Body and sexual objectification: perceptions in the shuar indigenous community
(2021) Brito Roby, Liliana Alexandra; Jiménez Brito, Doriz Angélica; Sinche Rivera, Elisabeth Cecilia; Angulo Rosero, Aydee Narcisa
Objective: To present to the scientific community the voices of the Shuar people, their perceptions about bodies and sexual objectification caused by the influence of the Western World in the context of colonization and globalization. Material and Method: The interpretative research paradigm was used, with a qualitative approach, through in-depth interviews and a focus group. The sample was selected by convenience; 24 people participated: Shuar men and women from the Morona Canton in Ecuador, between the ages of 14 and 60, who had previously signed informed consents. The informants’ responses were recorded, transcribed, processed in Atlas.ti software, and analyzed by the researchers. Results: The Shuar people who participated in the research perceive that their community has been absorbed by the logic of the Western World; they acknowledge the globalized capitalist ideology of consumption and materialism; they perceive that the Shuar female bodies, but also the male ones, have been objectified; that the juvenile mindset focuses more on eroticism and less in biological aspects; they also believe that sexual behaviors have been modified by the influence of pornography, evidenced by the existence of exotic pornography; they believe that prostitution is abundant in the Shuar ethnic group because it offers an economic opportunity and is mostly voluntary; a social awareness of resistance emerges from community leaders and the adult generation. Conclusions: The main results showed a new conceptualization of the body; sexual objectification was manifested by prostitution and pornography
Cuerpo y cosificación sexual: percepciones en la comunidad indígena Shuar
(2021) Jiménez Brito, Doriz Angélica; Brito Roby, Liliana Alexandra; Angulo Rosero, Aydee Narcisa
Objective: To present to the scientific community the voices of the Shuar people, their perceptions about bodies and sexual objectification caused by the influence of the Western World in the context of colonization and globalization. Material and Method: The interpretative research paradigm was used, with a qualitative approach, through in-depth interviews and a focus group. The sample was selected by convenience; 24 people participated: Shuar men and women from the Morona Canton in Ecuador, between the ages of 14 and 60, who had previously signed informed consents. The informants’ responses were recorded, transcribed, processed in Atlas.ti software, and analyzed by the researchers. Results: The Shuar people who participated in the research perceive that their community has been absorbed by the logic of the Western World; they acknowledge the globalized capitalist ideology of consumption and materialism; they perceive that the Shuar female bodies, but also the male ones, have been objectified; that the juvenile mindset focuses more on eroticism and less in biological aspects; they also believe that sexual behaviors have been modified by the influence of pornography, evidenced by the existence of exotic pornography; they believe that prostitution is abundant in the Shuar ethnic group because it offers an economic opportunity and is mostly voluntary; a social awareness of resistance emerges from community leaders and the adult generation. Conclusions: The main results showed a new conceptualization of the body; sexual objectification was manifested by prostitution and pornography.
Estudio cualitativo sobre el malestar: perspectivas de la medicina tradicional en Cuenca, El Tambo y Saraguro - Ecuador
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2017-12) Angulo Rosero, Aydeé Narcisa; Brito Roby, Liliana Alexandra; Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo; Arévalo Peláez, Carlos Eduardo; Rojas Reyes, Rosendo Iván; Quizhpi Merchán, Carmita Victoria; Mosquera Vallejo, Lorena Elizabeth; Quispe Bolaños, Marcelo
Antecedents and objective: The Andean cosmo-vision looks at the reality according to its paradigms, laws and principles based on the observation of nature and an analogical reasoning; the discomfort or disease has been understood as the imbalance of the harmony of being with oneself, with the family, with nature and with the cosmos. Therefore, the present study aims to understand the meanings and senses of the Kichwa malaise of the sages of ancestral medicine. Methodology: a qualitative, post-positivist phenomenological study of the discomfort was carried out from the perspective of traditional medicine with men and women of Andean wisdom from the city of Cuenca, El Tambo and Saraguro. A snowball sampling was used and for convenience. The interviews were recorded and transcribed literally. The data was analyzed with the Atlas program using content analysis Results: ancestral medicine for disease and health are unique concepts in which refer to a state of the human being and not only to the state of organs or isolated parts of the body. Important elements of discomfort are pain and suffering. Discomfort is shared, sufferings are communal and the healing of someone is also the healing of others. The discomfort born in the coexistence that is always communal, the discomfort of others is also the discomfort of each one. Conclusions: The discomfort in the Kichwa communities of Cuenca, El Tambo and Saraguro is caused by the disconnection or imbalance with oneself, with others, with nature and with the supernatural. The discomfort can be healed with the intermediation of the Yachaks or healers through different methods or elements, which constitutes a medicine different from conventional one whose approach is of the biochemical - molecular type.
Estudio cualitativo sobre el Malestar: Perspectivas de la medicina tradicional en Cuenca, El Tambo y Saraguro - Ecuador
(2017) Quizhpi Merchan, Carmita Victoria
Antecedents and objective: The Andean cosmo-vision looks at the reality according to its paradigms, laws and principles based on the observation of nature and an analogical reasoning; the discomfort or disease has been understood as the imbalance of the harmony of being with oneself, with the family, with nature and with the cosmos. Therefore, the present study aims to understand the meanings and senses of the Kichwa malaise of the sages of ancestral medicine. Methodology: a qualitative, post-positivist phenomenological study of the discomfort was carried out from the perspective of traditional medicine with men and women of Andean wisdom from the city of Cuenca, El Tambo and Saraguro. A snowball sampling was used and for convenience. The interviews were recorded and transcribed literally. The data was analyzed with the Atlas program using content analysis Results: ancestral medicine for disease and health are unique concepts in which refer to a state of the human being and not only to the state of organs or isolated parts of the body. Important elements of discomfort are pain and suffering. Discomfort is shared, sufferings are communal and the healing of someone is also the healing of others. The discomfort born in the coexistence that is always communal, the discomfort of others is also the discomfort of each one. Conclusions: The discomfort in the Kichwa communities of Cuenca, El Tambo and Saraguro is caused by the disconnection or imbalance with oneself, with others, with nature and with the supernatural. The discomfort can be healed with the intermediation of the Yachaks or healers through different methods or elements, which constitutes a medicine different from conventional one whose approach is of the biochemical- molecular type.
Estudio Cualitativo: Prácticas sexuales relacionadas con el VIH/SIDA en las comunidades Shuar de la parroquia Sevilla Don Bosco - Morona Santiago, 2017
(2019) Angulo Rosero, Aydee Narcisa; Jiménez Brito, Doriz Angélica; Brito Roby, Liliana Alexandra; Estrada Zamora, Esmeralda Maricela; Sinche Rivera, Elisabeth Cecilia
BACKGROUND: Ethnic groups of Latin America and Ecuador do to their cultural differences, sexual behaviors, low escolarity, and poor access to information; would be exposed to an increased risk of acquiring sexually transmitted infections. The transmission of human immunodeficiency virus in Shuar communities is increa-sing lately. The aim of this study was to identify sexual practices related to the transmission of human immu-nodeficiency virus/ acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in Shuar communities of the Don Bosco – Morona Santiago.METHODS: A qualitative phenomenological study was performed. The universe included Shuar communities of Sevilla Don Bosco – Morona Santiago in Ecuador; the sample was selected by convenience. Inclusion criteria were people with active sexual life and not diagnosed with the disease. The information was collected through four focus groups and eleven in-depth interviews.RESULTS: 35 people were included, men and women between 12 to 50 years old. The data showed that sexual practices were mainly heterosexual, high risk sexual behaviors were identified due to the sporadic use of the condom and multiple sexual behaviors. The exchange sexual partners, sporadic sex, and oral or anal sex were unknown sexual practices and were identified as strange to the community. CONCLUSIONS: High risk sexual practices that could increase the risk of human immunodeficiency virus trans-mission were identified in people belonging to the Shuar communities; being the lack of use of contraceptive methods and the multiple sexual partners the most representatives. Barrier methods were the most common known but their use was infrequent
La alimentación de los mayores. perspectiva de cambios en la producción y consumo en comunidades de Saraguro, El Tambo y Cuenca, 2016
(2018) Quishpe Bolaños, Jorge Marcelo
From a physical perspective, the Andes has been a challenge for the people living there, who have filled it with memories. In other words, it’s a space that contains footprints of older cultures and practical knowledge of the present, resulting in a long process in construction, resistance and adaptation to the unending colonialist experience. It is evident today that in the septentrional Andes, community and family experience in the management of contiguous bio-regions is prevalent. It has facilitated the access to diverse food products that constitute the base of their diets, a societal and symbolic network that gives them a sense of belonging. Through the eight stories built on the lives of commoners from the towns of Saraguro, Cañari and the mestizos inhabitants of Cuenca located to the south Ecuadorian sierra, strategies will be shown on how the management of space is used. It’s relationship to the food production by a generation born during the first half of the twentieth century, the changes that have affected the descendants throughout that century and all coinciding with a time of a political state and societal modernization
Las relaciones de convivencia de los niños, niñas y adolescentes sordos o hipoacústicos: estudio cualitativo exploratorio
(2015) Huiracocha Tutivén, María de Lourdes; Blume, Stuart; Orellana Paucar, Adriana Monserrath; Brito Roby, Liliana Alexandra; Abril Ulloa, Sandra Victoria; Chilet Rosell, Elisa; Diaz Granda, Ruth Cumanda; Sempértegui León, Silvia Rocío; Palacios Santana, Gicela Monserrate; Monsalve Neira, Maria Daniela; Barahona Huiracocha, Jorge Alfonso; Artega H., Sebastián; Almeida Pozo, Juan Carlos; Huiracocha Tutivén, Mirian Sofía
Medicina tradicional andina
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2020) Brito Roby, Liliana Alexandra; Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo; Angulo Rosero, Aydee Narcisa; Huiracocha Tutivén, María de Lourdes; Orellana Paucar, Adriana Monserrath; Mosquera Vallejo, Lorena Elizabeth; Barrera Luna, Geovanny Patricio
Parents and grandparents of deaf children in Ecuador: concerns and expectations
(2017) Orellana Paucar, Adriana Monserrath; Brito Roby, Liliana Alexandra; Blume, Stuart; Huiracocha Tutivén, María de Lourdes
Despite a growing number of anthropological studies of deaf communities, little attention has been paid to how socioeconomic and cultural factors influence the experiences and the concerns of hearing parents of deaf and hearing-impaired (DHI) children. This study draws on interviews with parents (and some grandparents) of DHI children in Ecuador, a country marked by profound inequality but also by considerable recent progress in poverty reduction and enhanced provisions for people with disabilities. Despite progress, many carers are nevertheless critical of the way in which new measures have been implemented, and of the schooling available to their child. They are also worried by their child’s vulnerability, the likelihood of discrimination, and the possibility of abuse.
Percepciones de los sanadores andinos de Saraguro sobre la hibridación en salud y la influencia de la cultura occidental
(2018) Quizhpi Merchan, Carmita Victoria
The cultural hybridization in health allows to recognize diverse practices that coexist in the same space and time, a process that is fulfilled in Saraguro, county of the South-Ecuadorian Andes with an indigenous and mixed ethnic population with health experiences that respond to different rationalities.Objetive:Analyzing the conceptions of Saraguro healers with respect to health hybridization.Method:The present is a qualitative-interpretative study, with interviews to wise people of the place; the worked categories are: Hybridization, conceptualization and hybrid reality, to which the integration challenge was added. The interviews were recorded and then transcribed to word for processing, the Atlas.ti program was used. The triangulation was carried out with a university expert in ancestral medicine subjects and the bibliography consulted.Results: The healers of Saraguro keep their ancestral worldview in the phenomena of health-disease, in some practices expressions of other cultures coexist, this hybridization in health shows Andean knowledge with elements of Western medicine and religious order.Conclusions:In Saraguro the Ancestral Medicine is still valid through the healers, wise in healing according to the Andean cosmovision.The Andean healers keep their practice according to the Andean conceptions of the health-disease process.Ancestral health practices undergo a process of hybridization between the ancestral and the Western as well as religious elements
Percepciones de los sanadores andinos de Saraguro sobre la hibridación en salud y la influencia de la cultura occidental
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2018-11) Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo; Angulo Rosero, Aydée Narcisa; Brito Roby, Liliana Alexandra; Arévalo Peláez, Carlos Eduardo; Rojas Reyes, Rosendo Ivan; Quizhpi Merchán, Carmita Victoria; Mosquera Vallejo, Lorena Elizabeth; Quishpe Bolaños, Jorge Marcelo
The cultural hybridization in health allows to recognize diverse practices that coexist in the same space and time, a process that is fulfilled in Saraguro, county of the South-Ecuadorian Andes with an indigenous and mixed ethnic population with health experiences that respond to different rationalities. Objetive: Analyzing the conceptions of Saraguro healers with respect to health hybridization. Method: The present is a qualitative-interpretative study, with interviews to wise people of the place; the worked categories are: Hybridization, conceptualization and hybrid reality, to which the integration challenge was added. The interviews were recorded and then transcribed to word for processing, the Atlas.ti program was used. The triangulation was carried out with a university expert in ancestral medicine subjects and the bibliography consulted. Results: The healers of Saraguro keep their ancestral worldview in the phenomena of health-disease, in some practices expressions of other cultures coexist, this hybridization in health shows Andean knowledge with elements of Western medicine and religious order. Conclusions: In Saraguro the Ancestral Medicine is still valid through the healers, wise in healing according to the Andean cosmovision. The Andean healers keep their practice according to the Andean conceptions of the health-disease process. Ancestral health practices undergo a process of hybridization between the ancestral and the Western as well as religious elements
Sabiduría ancestral andina y uso de plantas medicinales
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2020) Brito Roby, Liliana Alexandra
Su guagua no escucha nada: ecuadorian families confronting the deafness of a child
(2015) Huiracocha Tutivén, María de Lourdes; Brito Roby, Liliana Alexandra; Perez Gonzalez, Maria Esther; Clavijo Castillo, Ruth Germania; Sempértegui León, Silvia Rocío; Huiracocha Tutivén, Martha Karina; Blume, Stuart
In accordance with the social model of disability, this study proceeded from the assumption that parents’ experiences of a child’s hearing impairment reflect the circumstances of their lives rather than anything innate in the impairment itself. Few studies have explored the influence both of culture and social structure and of families’ economic and social resources. We studied families’ experiences of the diagnosis of hearing loss in Ecuador, a multicultural country in which family ties are strong but where pronounced social and economic inequalities persist and where many people have no access to health care. The study shows how inequality – and in particular the experience of poverty – shapes families’ experiences of acquiring a diagnosis and of trying to accommodate a child with special needs.