Submitted by PPG Hist?ria (historia-pg@pucrs.br) on 2018-01-08T13:20:06Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Daiane Brum Bitencourt.pdf: 5261522 bytes, checksum: 8d89de9655a7e341473189df16970cf5 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Tatiana Lopes (tatiana.lopes@pucrs.br) on 2018-01-08T16:09:18Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Daiane Brum Bitencourt.pdf: 5261522 bytes, checksum: 8d89de9655a7e341473189df16970cf5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-08T16:16:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Daiane Brum Bitencourt.pdf: 5261522 bytes, checksum: 8d89de9655a7e341473189df16970cf5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-28 / CAPES/PROEX / CAPES/PROSUP / Since the seventeenth century, the Amazon and the region which comprises of the Brazilian Amazon have been suffering successive environmental and cultural impacts. Contacts between colonists, explorers, missionaries and traditional groups have brought different interpretations to the awareness of the world, forest, plants, stories, and of the therapeutic systems adopted, suppressed and adapted. The objective of this research is to address the healing technique in the lowland Amazon region (States of Par? and Amazonas) between the years of 1870 and 1940, and the association between the social imaginary of diseases in the area and to the curators who worked and their descendants, such as shamans, midwives, sacacas and healers. In this context, evidence of the family cultures, the plurality of the knowledge, the experience shared between traditional groups regarding fauna and flora, and the spiritual-religious rituals, all aiming at the care of the body and the return of health, are discussed. It is important to point out that the historical process of knowledge exchange between pre-Columbian natives, explorers, European settlers, riverine and quilombola communities, and later, with modern 19th-century medicine, transformed and influenced the behaviour of all these groups, in some way and rights adopted. Therefore, it is possible to perceive the adoption of new conceptions about diseases, of treatments and maintenance of bodies and behaviours, of attempts to "fit" the unhealthy environments and nature through hygienic discourses. Becoming evident especially in the progressive invigoration of demoralising figures discourses such as shamans and healers, as well as their explanatory universes about illness and therapeutics. Consequently, the process eventually generated biased documents and writings that reduced them to invisibility and the margins of writing history. / Desde o s?culo XVII, a Amaz?nia e a regi?o do Baixo Amazonas brasileiro, vem sofrendo sucessivos impactos ambientais e culturais. Os contatos entre os exploradores, colonizadores, mission?rios e grupos tradicionais, trouxeram diferentes interpreta??es sobre o conhecimento do mundo, da floresta, das plantas, das lendas e dos sistemas terap?uticos adotados, suprimidos ou adaptados. O objetivo desta pesquisa ? abordar as artes de curar no Baixo Amazonas (Par? e Amazonas) entre os anos de 1870 a 1940, relacionando-as ao imagin?rio social das doen?as na regi?o e aos curadores que atuaram e seus descendentes, como os benzedores, consertadores, parteiras, sacac?s e curandeiros. Neste contexto, s?o evidenciadas as culturas familiares, a pluralidade de conhecimentos, o conhecimento compartilhado entre grupos tradicionais sobre a fauna e flora, e os rituais m?gico-religiosos, todos objetivando os cuidados com o corpo e o retorno da sa?de. ? importante salientar que o processo hist?rico de troca de conhecimento entre os amer?ndios, exploradores, colonizadores, ribeirinhos e quilombolas, e posteriormente com a medicina cient?fica j? em fins do s?culo XIX, transformaram e influenciaram os comportamentos de todos estes grupos, em alguns espa?os e prerrogativas adotadas. Portanto, ? poss?vel perceber a ado??o de novas concep??es sobre as doen?as, de tratamentos e manuten??o dos corpos e comportamentos, de tentativas de ?adequa??o? dos ambientes e natureza insalubres atrav?s de discursos higienistas, e principalmente, na progressiva investida dos discursos desmoralizantes de figuras como os xam?s e curadores, al?m de seus universos explicativos sobre as enfermidades e terap?uticas. Tal processo, acabou por gerar documentos e escritas tendenciosas que os reduziram a invisibilidade e as margens da escrita da hist?ria.