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"The aim of CAM-NAt in this sense is to go beyond empiricism, transcending the nature/culture binomial, retrieving analogism, the ability to feel, and using the only thing that the market apparently cannot check as a strategy of resistance: transcendence."
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"Due to this link and for practical reasons, in this article, I frequently mention CAM and NAt (CAM-NAt) as if they belong to a unique ensemble."
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"As holism is one of the main features that most of the practices defined (by Western) alternative or New Age share, I also refer to CAM-NAt as holistic practices. Anthropology & Medicine 3 Several studies have found that middle-class women (Kligman 1998; Ross 2012; Woodhead 2007) are those who are most frequently drawn to CAM and NAt."
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"To avoid the risk of rebuilding the logic of the system in the act of replacing it, it is necessary to see both the positive and the negative aspects of CAM-NAt in the West."
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"You are the creator, you are God Many CAM-NAt practices assign not only great consideration but also great power to the individual (especially all practices involving the concept of energy)."
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"For most of CAM-NAt practices, an imbalance of the energetic fluids is what generates the rise of pathological problems, and thus a harmony of energies is necessary to promote the healthy condition of the individual."
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"While, on one hand, these represent a form of resistance to capitalist culture, on the other there is a risk that CAM-NAt could end up reinforcing capitalistic logic through the establishment of an ‘individualistic holism’."
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"Both can help us to understand the role of CAM-NAt within the movement against certain features of biomedicine, as well as the capitalist system."
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"For the purposes of magic and folk medicine rituals, belief was crucial for the triggering of certain mechanisms of symbolic effectiveness (Lévi-Strauss 1958), but we can note that following capitalist logic, as well as that of the CAM-NAt, is still indispensable."
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"Through their experiences, it is possible to highlight the contradictions of CAM-NAt in the West."
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"In this sense, CAM-NAt followers are embedded in a process of re-enchantment of the world,9 which does not directly involve magic in the classical way of rituals and magical practices, but through the new paradigm of the holistic worldview ‘which re-units the spiritual and material dimension’ (Hanegraaff 1996, 394) and create re-enchanted bodies (Ostenfeld-Rosenthal 2011)."
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