التفسيرات الثقافية وممارسات الطب الشعبي المتعلقة بالوقاية والعلاج من جائحة فيروس كورونا كوفيد 19 لدى الأسرة في مدينة العريش

Abstract EN

The current study aims to reveal the prevailing cultural interpretations about the corona virus COVID 19 pandemic and to monitor health behaviors and folk medicine practices related to the prevention and treatment of corona virus COVID 19 in the family in the city of Arish, and the study relied on the anthropological approach based on observation, participation and coexistence using the work guide the field and the in-depth interview in collecting data, applied to families in Ezbet el-Sadat in the city of Arish, and the researcher applied the study to a sample of folk healers, using the interview guide for folk healers, and the current study adopts both the cognitive trend and the cultural-symbolic trend in interpreting risks (introduction to risk analysis) through the sayings and ideas of both Geertz and turner, especially the theoretical direction of the anthropologist “Mary Douglas”.

the study reached several results, including that the local culture plays an important role in shaping and formulating the community members’ concept of the corona pandemic and their perceptions of the causes of the pandemic, the treatment methods used and their choice of therapists.

there are two patterns of interaction between the services of traditional medicine and modern official medicine, a pattern that is dominated by the use of traditional medicine practices in the prevention and treatment of the corona virus COVID 19, the pattern of using both the service the official medical system and the traditional medical system.