Bebendo na raiz : um estudo de caso sobre saberes e técnicas medicinais do povo brasileiro

AUTOR(ES)

Marília Flores Seixas de Oliveira

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

Although cultural diversity is a defining aspect of the Brazilian culture, its relation with medicinal knowledge, techniques and practices from non-hegemonic communities is still full of prejudice, ruled by modern sciences diminishing point of view, leading to a depletion of the cultural knowledge and to the enforcement of exogenous models, with no belonging links with people around regions. Here, mans relations with health and body the ones that result from the interaction between culture and nature are put under discussion. They manifest singular epistemologies and techniques, historically situated, which understanding shows to be aggrandizing for humanity. Theres also an approach to the plurality of ethno-cultural mixtures about the human body, under the perspective of Brazilians cultural production and historic traditions present in the historical process of its constitution. Fundaments of the dominant medical paradigm and Brazilian popular medicines are analyzed, organized by principles and cultural references different from the standard model. Based on alternative ideologies and human body representations, many times different from the ones canonized by the positivist science, such knowledge about the human body report to non-European cultures, allude to knowledge built from intern divisions, ruptures and dissensions of the hegemonic occidental model itself, or, still, refer to traditional, popular, hybrid knowledge, which originate from cultures resulting from the colonization and overflowing processes of the European culture, as it happened in Brazil. It is believed that the study of health alternatives presented by non-hegemonic medicines might become discussion issues for the contemporary paradigms, considering the centrality of matters related to the human body and its processes in social life. Knowledge and discussion of other ethos might contribute to the arising of a neoproduction of knowledge, which would generate more prudent and responsible ways of acting before nature and societies: starting from a focus change on the cultural and epistemological plan, alternative and non-hegemonic knowledge an local techniques of health promotion and attention might gain value.

ASSUNTO(S)

cultura brasileira pertencimento cultural outros medicina popular fitoterapia

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