Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2018-01-16T17:15:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 AdemildeAlencarDantasDeMedeirosNeta_DISSERT.pdf: 1444274 bytes, checksum: 1d9b710664976eb6f8ab83d0dff933c5 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2018-01-19T14:36:14Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 AdemildeAlencarDantasDeMedeirosNeta_DISSERT.pdf: 1444274 bytes, checksum: 1d9b710664976eb6f8ab83d0dff933c5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-19T14:36:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AdemildeAlencarDantasDeMedeirosNeta_DISSERT.pdf: 1444274 bytes, checksum: 1d9b710664976eb6f8ab83d0dff933c5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-09-01 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior (CAPES) / O objetivo deste trabalho ? compreender a configura??o da pr?tica obst?trica n?o oficial no munic?pio de S?o Gon?alo do Amarante/RN. Levando em conta as transforma??es sociais ocorridas em rela??o ao parto e assist?ncia obst?trica nas ?ltimas d?cadas, procuro analisar os aspectos que permeiam a atua??o das parteiras em suas comunidades, onde o papel desempenhado por elas vai al?m do partejar. Abordando suas trajet?rias, os conflitos com o sistema formal de sa?de, o di?logo com institui??es governamentais e a incorpora??o de novas concep??es sobre o exerc?cio, elaboro minhas considera??es sobre a pr?tica, numa perspectiva antropol?gica. E nesse sentido, direciono minhas impress?es sobre uma atua??o que longe de mostrar-se cristalizada nos saberes populares, revela-se flex?vel ao incorporar elementos de outras pr?ticas e concili?-los ? sua. Logo, ? essa aproxima??o entre o que ? considerado moderno e tradicional que marca a pr?tica recente das parteiras, cuja configura??o ? perpassada por diversos aspectos e rela??es de poder que, direta ou indiretamente, definem sua configura??o e seu espa?o concreto de atua??o. / The aim of this work is to understand how unofficial obstetric practices have formed in the municipality of S?o Gon?alo do Amarante, Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil. Considering the social changes that have occurred in the relationship between childbirth and obstetric assistance in recent decades, I seek to analyze aspects seen across the activities of midwives in their own communities today, where the role they play goes beyond childbirth. Addressing their career development, conflicts with the formal health system, dialogue with governmental institutions and the incorporation of new concepts of exercise, I aim to work on devising practical considerations in an anthropological perspective. Therefore, I will focus this dissertation on the work of midwives, something that is not only learned from popular knowledge, but is also sufficiently flexible to be able to incorporate elements of other practices and reconcile them with each other. Thus, it is that coming-together of what is considered modern and traditional that marks the recent practice of midwives, whose work brings together several aspects and power relationship that, directly or indirectly, define that configuration and the concrete space it occupies.