Body and health: a look from Anthropology

Abstract

In this text, we present an approach of the body from an Anthropological perspective, seeking to understand the insertion of health in this construct that is the body, and in this way re-think the human body in its anthropological dimension, which takes place by the understanding of the processes that assign it meaning and by the understanding of the relation between identity and human body in its cultural referents, within a historical and social context, which is concrete and dynamic, in this way the body reconstitutes itself from cultural processes that mark ideological processes that end up happening between health and disease, as an assignment of a whole that only constitutes the biologicist part of it.