(Eco)logical of care: Health, nature anda sociability in Serra Grande, Uruçuca – BA
Care, Health, Nature, sociability, Southern Bahia.
Serra Grande, located in the south of Bahia, comes to stand out as an important center for alternative therapies in the circuit of new age religions. Self-knowledge, nature and health preservation, are some general characteristics that have reached the region in the last 20 years. However, these modes of use contrast with previous modes of use, in which social relationships were an important guarantee of health and well-being. As different ways of relating to nature, also, as people and with the territory, they also reflect and contrast with different forms of care and health concepts that are produced and updated in this location. This ethnography describes these different ways of inhabiting the village, as well as the methods that are formulated, especially with regard to health and forms of care in the place.