Concepção de saúde-doença-cuidado relacionada às práticas do Candomblé em Boa Vista

Abstract

This study is part of the line of research in Sociocultural Diversity and Health Amazonia-PROCISA/UFRR, from a transdisciplinary dialogue in the health sciences approach of anthropology, focusing on the relationship between health, medicine and religion. Analyzed as therapeutic itineraries are constructed, ie, as the concepts are formulated involving health, illness and care in a religious community composed of migrants in the city of Boa Vista. Therefore, we will discuss the cultural and identity aspects involved in the process. We performed an ethnographic research and at the same time with this collaborative community, anchored in a religious institution african-brazilian called Ile Axe Yeye Olomir Hello, practitioners of Candomble, whose nation is Ketu, and is leader of the father- saint-Dofono of Oshun, situated on the outskirts of the city of Boa Vista. The survey reports on the therapeutic itineraries related to the health care of the people who participate in this community, through analysis of world views of its members, and also the study of the trajectories and routes in search of healing. Outline an initial classification of the main healing efforts in Candomble, limited to our small sample focal research, but through which I analyze the diagnostic process of designing health illness and treatment, in order to understand the relation between medicine, religion and health. Interviews were conducted with parents-in-saint, saint-mothers, sons and daughters-in-holy and people seeking help in the yards. During the course of research we have seen the demand for healing services in greater numbers of some diseases, like depression, dermatitis and alcoholism. But also, for those in search of health trajectories can be constructed linking professional practice, popular and familiar with their comings and goings between them.