In this thesis I shall consider the process of economic change in tribal and peasant societies, and show how traditional principles of social and economic organization within these societies are related to such change. I shall be aoncerned with how far "organization" may be treated as a factor in development apart from and in conjunction with such factors as "capital", "values", "innovation", etc. [...]

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O diagnóstico de câncer infantojuvenil e as demandas do seu tratamento transforma a vida da família, particularmente das mães que acompanham seus filhos de perto e não medem esforços para oferecer-lhes o melhor. O cuidado prestado pelas mães é permeado de influências culturais que podem favorecer a introdução de terapias complementares no cuidado dos seus filhos. O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar os sentidos das experiências de um grupo de mães de crianças e adolescentes com câncer com a terapia complementar. Para alcançar este objetivo, realizou-se estudo com abordagem metodológica qualitativa, adotando o referencial teórico da Antropologia Médica e a narrativa como método. Após aprovação ética da pesquisa, foram convidadas a participar do estudo quinze mães de crianças e adolescentes com câncer, em acompanhamento terapêutico em serviço de saúde localizado no interior do estado de São Paulo. A coleta de dados foi realizada por meio de duas entrevistas semiestruturadas com cada participante, realizadas nas dependências do complexo hospitalar e nos domicílios, no período de julho de 2014 a julho de 2015. A partir das entrevistas foram construídas as narrativas individuais das participantes e utilizamos os pressupostos dos modelos explicativos para organizar os dados relativos à reconstrução das experiências das mães acerca da causa, tratamento e o prognóstico da doença. Para a análise dos dados provenientes das narrativas, utilizou-se a análise temática indutiva. Relacionaram-se os aspectos semelhantes e os particulares das narrativas sobre as experiências das mães com os tratamentos complementares e eles foram integrados em dois temas representativos, apresentados sob a forma de sínteses narrativas ou unidades de sentidos. Os resultados foram analisados e apresentados a partir das narrativas temáticas: Quando um filho tem câncer, não se imagina a força de uma mãe, em que se apresenta a persistência, energia, entusiasmo e motivação das mães para lidar com as demandas do diagnóstico oncológico e tratamento do câncer, bem como a sua influência nas decisões que garantem a qualidade do tratamento dos filhos, incluindo ou não a incorporação de práticas alternativas; e A utilização da terapia complementar motivada pela esperança, em que o sentido atribuído pelas mães à incorporação de terapias complementares no cuidado do filho é o de renovação da esperança, com o propósito de promoção do bem-estar da criança ou adolescente e cura da doença. Os sentidos dessas experiências foram explicados por meio de conceitos derivados da antropologia. A interpretação das narrativas centradas na experiência de um grupo de mães de crianças e adolescentes oncológicos com a terapia complementar, a partir do sistema cultural, permitiu-nos explicar compreensivamente como a cultura influencia o cuidado prestado pelas mães aos seus filhos, por meio dos sentidos. Os sentidos das experiências desse grupo de mães constituem-se em conhecimento que pode ser aplicado na prática clínica e em pesquisas futuras / The childhood cancer diagnosis and its treatment demands change the life of the family, particularly the mothers who are close to their children and make great effort to provide them the best. The care provided by mothers to their children is permeated with cultural influences that may favor the introduction of complementary therapies. The goal of this study was to analyze the senses of the experiences with the complementary therapy shared by a group of mothers of children and adolescents affected by cancer. To achieve such a goal, a qualitative methodological approach study was held, adopting the theoretical framework of Medical Anthropology and narrative as a method. Once the ethical approval of the study was obtained, fifteen mothers of children and adolescents with cancer under therapeutic follow-up at a health service located in the state of São Paulo were invited to participate in the study. Data collection was performed by means of two semi-structured interviews with each participant, held on the premises of the hospital complex and at participants\' homes, from July, 2014 to July, 2015. Individual narratives were assembled using the interview data from participants, and we used the assumptions of explanatory models to organize data related to the reconstruction of the experiences shared by mothers regarding the cause, treatment and prognosis of the disease. For the analysis of data deriving from the narratives, the inductive thematic analysis was used. Specific and similar aspects from the narratives were related to the experiences of mothers whose children were undergoing complementary treatment and they were integrated into two meaningful themes, presented in the form of narrative summaries or units of meaning. The results were analyzed and presented based on two thematic narratives: When a child has cancer, one cannot imagine the strength of a mother as for the persistence, the energy, the enthusiasm and motivation that mothers are able to gather to cope with the demands of a cancer diagnosis and the treatment of such a disease, as well as the mothers\' influence over decisions that would ensure the quality of care of their children, with or without the incorporation of alternative practices; and The use of complementary therapy motivated by hope, in the sense that the meaning attributed by mothers regarding the incorporation of complementary therapies in the care of their child represents the renewal of hope, aiming at the promotion of the children or adolescent well-being and the healing of the disease. The meaning of these experiences was explained by way of concepts derived from anthropology. The interpretation of narratives centered on the experience of a group of mothers of children and adolescents affected by cancer undergoing complementary therapy, from the cultural system standpoint, allowed us to explain, comprehensively, how culture influences the care provided by mothers to their children by way of meanings. The meaning of the experiences for this group of mothers amounts to knowledge that can be applied in clinical practice and in future research

O diagnóstico de câncer infantojuvenil e as demandas do seu tratamento transforma a vida da família, particularmente das mães que acompanham seus filhos de perto e não medem esforços para oferecer-lhes o melhor. O cuidado prestado pelas mães é permeado de influências culturais que podem favorecer a introdução de terapias complementares no cuidado dos seus filhos. O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar os sentidos das experiências de um grupo de mães de crianças e adolescentes com câncer com a terapia complementar. Para alcançar este objetivo, realizou-se estudo com abordagem metodológica qualitativa, adotando o referencial teórico da Antropologia Médica e a narrativa como método. Após aprovação ética da pesquisa, foram convidadas a participar do estudo quinze mães de crianças e adolescentes com câncer, em acompanhamento terapêutico em serviço de saúde localizado no interior do estado de São Paulo. A coleta de dados foi realizada por meio de duas entrevistas semiestruturadas com cada participante, realizadas nas dependências do complexo hospitalar e nos domicílios, no período de julho de 2014 a julho de 2015. A partir das entrevistas foram construídas as narrativas individuais das participantes e utilizamos os pressupostos dos modelos explicativos para organizar os dados relativos à reconstrução das experiências das mães acerca da causa, tratamento e o prognóstico da doença. Para a análise dos dados provenientes das narrativas, utilizou-se a análise temática indutiva. Relacionaram-se os aspectos semelhantes e os particulares das narrativas sobre as experiências das mães com os tratamentos complementares e eles foram integrados em dois temas representativos, apresentados sob a forma de sínteses narrativas ou unidades de sentidos. Os resultados foram analisados e apresentados a partir das narrativas temáticas: Quando um filho tem câncer, não se imagina a força de uma mãe, em que se apresenta a persistência, energia, entusiasmo e motivação das mães para lidar com as demandas do diagnóstico oncológico e tratamento do câncer, bem como a sua influência nas decisões que garantem a qualidade do tratamento dos filhos, incluindo ou não a incorporação de práticas alternativas; e A utilização da terapia complementar motivada pela esperança, em que o sentido atribuído pelas mães à incorporação de terapias complementares no cuidado do filho é o de renovação da esperança, com o propósito de promoção do bem-estar da criança ou adolescente e cura da doença. Os sentidos dessas experiências foram explicados por meio de conceitos derivados da antropologia. A interpretação das narrativas centradas na experiência de um grupo de mães de crianças e adolescentes oncológicos com a terapia complementar, a partir do sistema cultural, permitiu-nos explicar compreensivamente como a cultura influencia o cuidado prestado pelas mães aos seus filhos, por meio dos sentidos. Os sentidos das experiências desse grupo de mães constituem-se em conhecimento que pode ser aplicado na prática clínica e em pesquisas futuras / The childhood cancer diagnosis and its treatment demands change the life of the family, particularly the mothers who are close to their children and make great effort to provide them the best. The care provided by mothers to their children is permeated with cultural influences that may favor the introduction of complementary therapies. The goal of this study was to analyze the senses of the experiences with the complementary therapy shared by a group of mothers of children and adolescents affected by cancer. To achieve such a goal, a qualitative methodological approach study was held, adopting the theoretical framework of Medical Anthropology and narrative as a method. Once the ethical approval of the study was obtained, fifteen mothers of children and adolescents with cancer under therapeutic follow-up at a health service located in the state of São Paulo were invited to participate in the study. Data collection was performed by means of two semi-structured interviews with each participant, held on the premises of the hospital complex and at participants\' homes, from July, 2014 to July, 2015. Individual narratives were assembled using the interview data from participants, and we used the assumptions of explanatory models to organize data related to the reconstruction of the experiences shared by mothers regarding the cause, treatment and prognosis of the disease. For the analysis of data deriving from the narratives, the inductive thematic analysis was used. Specific and similar aspects from the narratives were related to the experiences of mothers whose children were undergoing complementary treatment and they were integrated into two meaningful themes, presented in the form of narrative summaries or units of meaning. The results were analyzed and presented based on two thematic narratives: When a child has cancer, one cannot imagine the strength of a mother as for the persistence, the energy, the enthusiasm and motivation that mothers are able to gather to cope with the demands of a cancer diagnosis and the treatment of such a disease, as well as the mothers\' influence over decisions that would ensure the quality of care of their children, with or without the incorporation of alternative practices; and The use of complementary therapy motivated by hope, in the sense that the meaning attributed by mothers regarding the incorporation of complementary therapies in the care of their child represents the renewal of hope, aiming at the promotion of the children or adolescent well-being and the healing of the disease. The meaning of these experiences was explained by way of concepts derived from anthropology. The interpretation of narratives centered on the experience of a group of mothers of children and adolescents affected by cancer undergoing complementary therapy, from the cultural system standpoint, allowed us to explain, comprehensively, how culture influences the care provided by mothers to their children by way of meanings. The meaning of the experiences for this group of mothers amounts to knowledge that can be applied in clinical practice and in future research

This master's thesis focuses on the retrospective biographical interviews with three now fertile women who as narrators retrospectively create their identities during the experience with the diagnosis and treatment of infertility. I also explored how the medical and social institution could lead to a change of identity of female infertility. This master's thesis is based on theory of Erving Goffman about patients in total institution: this theory supports the idea that total (medical) institution destroys the patient's original identity and then constructs new identity. The major result of this master's thesis found four different changes in woman's identity during the experience of infertility: identity of implicitly fertile woman and potential mother, denial of identity and the process of accepting a new identity, identity of infertile woman and patient's identity, and mother's identity. The changes of woman's identity are based on diagnostic phase. Therefore I decided to separate them into four various period in this research: pre-diagnostic, diagnostic, post-diagnostic and contra-diagnostic. I also found a difference between Goffman's theory and my results: Based on my research I concluded that the construction of identity of infertile women in the diagnostics and treatment of infertility is...