Yona koxi isin: Therapeutic resilience around COVID-19 among the Shipibo of San Francisco

The Shipibo-Konibo native community of San Francisco de Yarinacocha was particularly affected by SARS-CoV-2 in 2020. This is explained by a deterioration in the health status of its inhabitants--some of whom suffer from a range of co-morbidities--following the rapid transition from a self-subsistence economy based on abundance to a monetisation of the local economy marked by impoverishment and food restriction. The development of health policies in the management of COVID-19 that promote self-medication in accordance with local nosological representations, mainly based on the use of the indigenous pharmacopoeia, would however have contributed to the revitalization of the close links that traditionally unite this society with the plant world. The presentation of this therapeutic corpus as 'Shipibo medicine' would therefore act as an affirmation of identity in the face of economic, cultural and political demands.