Intercultural communication in the knowledge transmission, traditional medicine knowigns and cultural practices in the coastal mestizo people from Siuna

Abstract

The Cultivation and Breeding of Wisdoms and Knowledge “Intercultural Communication in the transmission of Knowledge, knowings and cultural practices of traditional medicine in the coastal mestizo people from Siuna, RACCN” was carried out under the qualitative paradigm, with an ethno methodological approach and symbolic interactionism. Each of the data obtained is the result of the coexistence process and conversations with grandparents, healers, midwives and injure massagers, cultural knowledge, knowings and practices of the traditional medicine of mestizo people are visible for health care during the most important stages of human being lives. Likewise, the practices of own communication in the transmission of this cultural heritage are described, orality is evidenced through intergenerational dialogue, the role of women in these dynamic communication processes and knowledge is recognized, from the role they play in the community and family, where grandmothers and mothers are the guardians of family welfare.