Abstract
This article addresses the characteristics and manifestations (beliefs and healing practices) of the Andean healers in Little Bolivia, an ethnic enclave located in Barrio Liniers of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. There one observes a field of religious practice in which various offerings forma market for symbolic healing goods within which the limits between legal and illegal, legitimate and regulated, are continuously shifting. This descriptive-exploratory qualitative research was done between 2013 and 2016 by means of in-depth interviews with healers. It aims to contribute to a better understanding of this social phenomenon that relates the fields of ethno medicine and sociology of religion to one another. The conclusions are that the Andean healers provide a new urban folk medicine that plays a healing role for people suffering from poverty, displacement and social exclusion.
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