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The objective of this paper is to analyze the changes that suffered the reproductive trajectories of indigenous women in the Puna Argentina. These women, for at least 3 decades, take care of their sexual and reproductive health with biomedical personnel, through a state policy centered in the application of the Primary Attention Health Model (APS). The progressive connection between women and health agents has meant, among others, the instauration of new medical practices during pregnancy, labor and (), the reconfiguration of family roles, traditionally linked to these vital stages. As a consequence, reproduction has ceased to be exclusively a family and communitarian event, to begin to be ruled by sanitary biomedicine norms. Among the most significant results in this process, changes of young womens representations around maternal health care, or the adoption of the concept of labor as a risk event. To show the phenomena of change and permanence of representations and practices through time, research methodology is based in the analysis of qualitative data picked up through in-depth interviews applied to indigenous women from 3 generations, linked between them by direct family relationship: grandmothers, mothers and granddaughters. Through their testimonies we can accede to the characteristics the changing process has assumed in their reproductive trajectories, and even the roles assumed by different actors that are present in this context; the traditional parteras and curadores; the biomedical personnel and the family, who we have also interviewed