Banca de DEFESA: MARIA ALICE SILVA FURTADO

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STUDENT : MARIA ALICE SILVA FURTADO
DATE: 16/08/2022
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: por videoconferência
TITLE:

Medicinal Plants and Traditional Healing in Santiago, Cape Verde: An Ethnography in the Plateau Market

KEY WORDS:

Medicinal Plants; Traditional Healing; Plateau Market; Medicinal Plant Sellers.

PAGES: 111
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Antropologia
SUMMARY:

The use of Medicinal Plants in curing diseases is a practice recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO), which reports that about 80% of the world population makes use of it. Cape Verde, with the arrival of its first inhabitants, uses medicinal plants to cure diseases. There are several reasons that contribute to this, such as the lack of public health structure, with insufficient doctors to cover the entire population and the distribution of the population and poverty in this archipelago country. The primary objective of this research was to investigate the importance of the use of medicinal plants and traditional healing for the people of Santiago and its recognition in the health and cultural heritage of this people. For the elaboration of this work, I carried out semi-structured interviews and free dialogue with several mediators, agents who deal directly and indirectly with the circulation of medicinal plants that are available at the Municipal Market of Praia/Mercado do Plateau, an important sales space for medicinal plants on the island of Santiago. The “Sellers” of medicinal plants and other mediators such as the Market Manager, Customers, Producers and Healers were interviewed. A literature review was also conducted on the subject, referring to Cape Verde and Brazil, to better achieve the established objectives. The research identified that the population of Santiago recognizes the importance of medicinal plants in their lives and traditionally uses them in the treatment of various diseases, in the form of tea, bath, air purification, aromatization of spaces, juice, cataplasm, inhalation, among others. On the other hand, on the part of the Cape Verdean State, there are no public policies that value and safeguard medicinal plants and traditional healing. At the level of the Ministry of Health, it is notorious the reluctance of those responsible for this area in working towards implementing this practice as a way of health reinforcement in Santiago communities. Therefore, the interlocutors of this research demand special attention from the responsible health services, in order to support them with training, funding so that they can provide better service to their patient users. Likewise, in cultural terms, there is also no short-term patrimonialization policy. I found that this is a subject that has not been studied much in Cape Verde, with a scarcity of written documents, inhibiting my research. The covid-19 pandemic also demanded a redoubled effort from me, readapting research, adapting new ways of studying, using new technologies.

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