The market: A dive into the Afro-Brazilian sacred universe?

• Autor(a) principal: Mandarino, Ana Cristina de Souza
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Jesus, Alexnaldo Neves de, Passy, Sandra Regina, Gomberg, Estélio
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: RECIIS (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.reciis.icict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/770
• topic: Candomblé; public market; phytotherapy; health-disease process; Candomblé; Mercado Público; fitoterapia; processo saúde-doença

Candomblé terreiros (plots of land) are intended as spaces to preserve African religious traditions within the Brazilian diaspora. In addition, they serve as multifunctional spaces for the purpose of integrating, autonomously or by means of governmental or international partnerships, the agenda of social actions aimed at developing a model of health care structured on values and norms. The aim is to rationally engage the conventional medical system, thus setting the stage for health care possibilities based on different cultural models. This model is associated with an understanding of the knowledge and practices developed and performed by Candomblé as a therapeutic system that might enable collaboration with local health systems and their specificities based on the system’s significant use of plants for therapeutic purposes. Therefore, these religious therapeutic practices are addressed as a mechanism for opening communication channels with social spaces, particularly the public market, which is the preferred locus for Afro-Brazilian sacred consumption and presents an issue related to public policies and programs for natural and complementary medicines and/or medicinal plants and phytotherapic agents.