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This paper briefly discusses the relevance of identifying social and cultural barriersin the health assistance to indigenous people of Argentina. Sustained in ethnographicfieldwork in an urban indigenous community of Argentina, the author wants todemonstrate the importance of the traditional conceptions and practices of the socialgroup in order to interpret obstacles in the health interventions, not always considered.Also, it is important to attend to the social barriers related to the relations betweensocial groups, expressed in discriminative and racism actions from the health servicesthat discourage the population to be served. To guarantee the right to health, it isnecessary to understand the complex logic that direct the actions of social groups.