Collective identity from the perspective of treatment and illness anthropological study

Abstract

This paper aims to explore the concept of collective identity through the
lens of healing and illness. It does so by presenting two studies, one on the
Wajana community and another on Moroccan society, examining their
relationships with both traditional and biomedicine. Despite the different
contexts of the studies, both reveal a distinction made by the actors
between traditional medicine and biomedicine, and the meaning they
attribute to illness and its treatment, all against a cultural backdrop that
reveals a specific collective identity.
Keywords: Collective identity, illness and treatment, anthropology of
illness.