Atravessando fronteiras: viagem rumo à saúde tradicional
The work aims at traditional health and proposes the research of knowledge and practice of traditional healthcare practitioners who apply body techniques to heal those who seek help. Conducted in two separate locations – Icoaraci District in Belém Metropolitan Area and in Chipaiá village in Cacho...
| Autor principal: | NOBRE, Angélica Homobono |
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| Grau: | Tese |
| Idioma: | por |
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Universidade Federal do Pará
2014
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http://repositorio.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/2011/4936 |
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The work aims at traditional health and proposes the research of knowledge and
practice of traditional healthcare practitioners who apply body techniques to heal those who
seek help. Conducted in two separate locations – Icoaraci District in Belém Metropolitan Area
and in Chipaiá village in Cachoeira do Arari municipality in Marajó Island, both in the
Brazilian Amazon – study explores the social construction of traditional healthcare practices
as symbolic-magic and social element. Research methods involved observation and open
interviews of/with eight different practitioners, four in each location, to understand and
deepen knowledge on a popular massage practice named “puxação” which belongs to the
Traditional Healthcare System (STAS). Study discusses concepts of creed, myth and
symbolic representation in traditional knowledge; the way rituals are conducted and how such
practices contribute to the social construction of traditional health practitioners; concepts of
health and disease according to STAS understanding; the relationship between healing
practices and the social system. Analysis also presents the interrelation between two different
rituals Alma Mater massage in Portuguese, “puxação-da-mãe-do-corpo“ and Pregnant
Massage “puxação de barriga-cheia” unique STAS practices, their importance for women´s
health as well as their influence on the Western Healthcare System (SOAS). |