Estudo das representações simbólicas de saúde/doença/cura na comunidade do Saco do Mamanguá, Paraty, RJ

• Autor(a) principal: Xavier, Maria Aparecida de Sá
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal Fluminense (RIUFF)
• Texto Completo: https://app.uff.br/riuff/handle/1/18412
• topic: Ciência ambiental; Análise sócio-ambiental; Processo sócio-ambiental; Saúde; Doença; Cura; Representações simbólicas; Resex Marinha; Meta social; Qualidade de vida; Symbolic representations; Health; Illness; Cure; RESEX Marine; Social aim; Life quality; CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::GEOCIENCIAS

The present study carries out a mapping of the symbolic representations of the health/illness/cure process in the community of Saco do Mamanguá, Paraty, RJ, Brasil. This mapping is intended to provide a insights on the ethic questions that follows the creation of the Marine Extrativist Reservation (RESEX Marine) that was proposed for the area. A sustainable social aim should ensure health and life quality for the so called traditional people. The present work is focused on four distinct themes: (i) the concept of traditional people; (ii) The concept of caiçara; (iii) the historically built occidental model for health/illness/cure that is employed governmental agents in the traditional communities disregarding the traditional knowledges; (iv) the symbolic representations of health/illness/cure in the Saco do Mamanguá community. It is criticized that the imposition of governmental and universal health projects for traditional communities drives these programs to failure, for it introduces conflicts between emic and ethic knowledges. It is therefore necessary to establish a social aim for the Marine Extrativist Reservations, where traditional people becomes actors and not passive subjects of conservation. For that, a dialog of knowledges is proposed, establishing a non imperial contact zone. Nevertheless, there is a great lag between ethic categories of the biomedical knowledge and the emic categories of the traditional knowledge of cure. The category illness show the illnesses that the physicians do not heal , hybrid illnesses and the illnesses that physicians heal. The passage rituals or liminary states are considered as illnesses that require special issues. These are pregnancy (and their forbiddances), delivery, post-delivery (and their forbiddances), aging (and its indispositions). For the healings are described the blessings, rituals, charms prayers and magic words. The cosmo-regard of the Mamanguá people mirrors the complexness of nature/culture, as expressed in the myths of the bioantropomorphic beings. Their traditional healing knowledges outline a real non material patrimony which transmission is being interrupted, due to the rapid social changes promoted by the attractions of the easy going technologies that redirect the attention of the new generations. It is necessary to qualify and rescue these knowledges in order to warrantee the reproduction of the local traditions for the future generations. The quest for the sustainable development in Environmental Conservation Units takes to an ethic of sustainability, that claims for a social aim giving rise to urgent local needs. This is to be worked out in a non imperial contact zone based on solidarity and social responsibility.