This monograph constitutes a descriptive study of qualitative character, considering the life history as a methodological way to apprehend an ever current theme that is that of traditional practices and its importance for a field education inserted the new modalities and requirements of knowledge. Relevant works such as Michael Pollak (1992), Maria da Gloria Gohn (2006), Iraci de Carvalho Barroso (2001), Gissele Silva (2006), Maria Cecília Minayo (2004), and many others are striking. Developed over generations in the fields and cities of the most diverse societies; traditional practices are those sets of beliefs, knowledge, and actions that hold subjects in their historical and social time, and upon which forms of experiences are produced which in all influence the life of a community. This study allows us to enter the practices of a midwife of the Holy Trinity Community, Acará, Brazil, with the objective of reporting her trajectory as part of other histories, from the practice of childbirth in the community, and which place her in the ambit of bearer of knowledge and memories admittedly important to those residents. In this sense, we opted for semi-structured interviews, participant observation and conversation with the midwife, in order to understand their stories, as an element of historicity that allows us to think of a non-formal education inserted into the knowledge present or not in the School Schools. . Therefore, we divided the text into three chapters (1- Midwives and Benzedeira: An Approach to Traditional Knowledge; 2- Life Story of a Traditional Midwife in the Holy Trinity Community in Acará County; and 3- The Knowledge and Practices of Partire: Learning and Teaching). The results expose the life story of a single midwife and her life stories in the Holy Trinity community, highlighting her as having a rich and complex knowledge about health and folk medicine in the communities where she worked. Therefore, the research led us to analyze this knowledge, as well as, the practices exercised until today; These reports and experiences challenged me as a student of the degree course in rural education to think of the techniques involved in childbirth as valid knowledge, and linked to health promotion in the rural communities of the Amazon.
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