Saúde e doença na cultura Nyungwe: um olhar antropológico-teológico

• Autor(a) principal: Maia, Antonio Alone
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/18277
• topic: Cultura; Antepassado; Etiologia; Médico tradicional; Saúde; Culture; Ancestors; Etiology; Traditional doctor; Health; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA

During the period of colonization most African cultural practices were discouraged in the name of civilization. Nevertheless, the local knowledge is part of the culture and the culture is something alive and active that people carry inside themselves. The colonial regime changed, but its track and politics somehow remained commanding in the new local governments in the period of independence and post independence. But the people, who had suffered before because of the colonial situation, then by the civil war, never gave up living its culture the way they inherited from their ancestors in matters of knowledge, relationship and behavior. This research talks concretely about the Mozambican people. The aim of this research is to talk about Nyungwe s cultural etiologies of health, disease and cure from an anthropological and theological point of view: attendance, treatment and cure. Where do people find response for daily situations related to health? When a woman does not get pregnant, or a man does not manage to make a woman pregnant, how does biomedicine handle this issue? If the woman gets pregnant and does not manage to have the baby or if she has a spontaneous abortion during pregnancy period, how do the doctors from the hospital as well as the traditional doctor deal with this problem? The research aims as well to point out the role of the ancestors, traditional doctors within nyungwe s culture and from these categories to set a Christology reflection according to African and not Western ways