Banca de DEFESA: GUSTAVO WADA FERREIRA

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STUDENT : GUSTAVO WADA FERREIRA
DATE: 07/06/2022
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: Plataforma google meet
TITLE:

The use of plants in folk cures: knowledge and education

KEY WORDS:

Education; Popular cultures; Medicinal plants;

PAGES: 120
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUBÁREA: Tópicos Específicos de Educação
SPECIALTY: Educação Permanente
SUMMARY:

Faced with the problem of valuing knowledge about the uses of plants in popular cures, this research sought to understand how this knowledge is formed, transmitted and updated. The term folk cures, as well as folk medicine or folk medicines, are used to designate knowledge and practices of maintenance and restoration of physical, mental and spiritual health, socially referenced in several non-hegemonic cultures. During this work, we had contact with saleswomen and leaf sellers, on the stands of Feira de São Joaquim (FSJ), shopkeepers, rezadeiras, and an indigenous leadership in the area of health. The field research began at Feira de São Joaquim with the workers of the paper stalls, where the data were collected and systematized through ethnographic-inspired research. Another moment of data collection took place during the course “Curricular Action in Community and Society (ACCS): Masters and Masters of Popular Culture”, at UFBA, where we saw the performance of three women who use plants to treat diseases and who exercise this role. activity in their respective communities, located in different urban areas of Salvador-BA: Mádisa Oliva (coordinator of the botica da terra); D. Gegé (reador de Itapuã); and Uhitwê Pataxo (former president of the indigenous health and university council). In addition to hearing about the formative paths of their knowledge and practices, their participation also made it possible to reflect on the insertion of popular knowledge in higher education. As it is such a hybrid manifestation as popular cures are, the resources for surveying, systematizing and interpreting the data were based on methods from different areas, as suggested by CANCLINI (2003), such as: anthropology (LAKATOS AND MARCONI, 2003; CANCLINI, 2003), communication ( BAKHTIN, 2010 ; FISHMANN, 2000, VANSINA, 2010), ecology (TOLEDO, V. M. BARRERA-BASSOLS, 2015), popular education (FREIRE, 1993), ethnobotany (ALMEIDA, 2011; CAMARGO. , 2014), ethnography (MACEDO 2005, 2006; PUJADAS, 2010) and History (BENJAMIN, 2000; THOMPSON 1998). In addition, the theoretical framework shares the decolonial perspective and also the thoughts that contributed to its formation (Marxism, post-structuralism and cultural and post-colonial studies). With the study, we were able to observe how hegemonic medicine has developed based on the accumulated knowledge of traditional practices, although these are currently discriminated against. On the other hand, the development of popular cures was shown as a result of the appropriation of economic and cultural goods by subaltern groups and, consequently, they have an ethics and a meaning specific to popular cultures. In view of the research, we conclude that the knowledge of popular cures are present in the experiences of masters who are able to transmit, elaborate and update this knowledge, being the main agents of this culture. Therefore, the safeguarding of popular cures goes through public policies that guarantee subsidies so that masters are able to continue these practices. The university, in turn, can – and should – help to ensure the development of culture, promoting interculturality and the development of biocultural memory through spaces for dialogue between diverse knowledge.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1150057 - PEDRO RODOLPHO JUNGERS ABIB
Interno - 2198885 - ROBERTO SIDNEI ALVES MACEDO
Externo à Instituição - FRANCISCO ANTONIO NUNES NETO - UFSB