Indígenas tristes y degenerados: la mirada psiquiátrica de Hermilio Valdizán sobre la diferencia racial en Perú, 1910-1925
Hermilio Valdizán published several papers on what was called psychiatric folklore, understood as the ways of understanding and treating mental illnesses by indigenous people, both from the colonial and pre-Hispanic past and from the author’s present. In this article, we analyze Valdizán’s texts on...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2022 |
| País: | México |
| Recursos: | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
| Repositório: | Repositorio Institucional del Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, UNAM |
| Idioma: | espanhol |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ru.historicas.unam.mx:20.500.12525/3157 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12525/3157 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | CIENCIAS SOCIALES::HISTORIA Hermilio Valdizán (1885-1929) indígenas peruanos folclore psiquiátrico degeneracionismo historia |
| Resumo: | Hermilio Valdizán published several papers on what was called psychiatric folklore, understood as the ways of understanding and treating mental illnesses by indigenous people, both from the colonial and pre-Hispanic past and from the author’s present. In this article, we analyze Valdizán’s texts on the psychiatric and psychological characteristics of indigenous Peruvians. From the perspective of this psychiatrist, contemporary indigenous people were archaeological remains of the ancient Inca empire, ruins in the process of degeneration. In a context marked by indigenism, in which it was sought to integrate the Indians, psychiatry played a conservative and racist role that reproduced evolutionary models of the nineteenth century. |
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