Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-01-30T11:55:38Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Adriana Maria de Souza.pdf: 1913379 bytes, checksum: 2937a6b378d8ccf197ad8f359395e8c4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-30T11:55:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Adriana Maria de Souza.pdf: 1913379 bytes, checksum: 2937a6b378d8ccf197ad8f359395e8c4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-15 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The objective of this research is to understand how the population composed of Africans and Afros Brazilians in Desterro (SC), especially the women, healers, mourners and healers who used the ancestral knowledge, for the practices of healing between 1844 and 1889 in Desterro (SC). This period, when posture codes, the terms of well-being in communion with the hygienist's medical gaze, and the desire to modernize by local political elites were in vogue, with the intention of controlling the poor populations and, consequently, the called healing practices developed by populations of African origin. The empire and the beginning of the Republic, with their ideals of modernization, hygiene and the fight against insalubrity, based on the absolute knowledge of medicine, also tried to regulate the practices called "witchcraft." The numerous works that approach the theme of healers and healers in Santa Catarina, with few exceptions, mainly focus on white women who are believed to be Azorean descendants. The African presence and its healing practices related to patient care appear in the background. We used as main source of research, announcements of local newspapers, inventory, trades and correspondence exchanged between the administration of the province of Santa Catarina and the empire, linked to the practices of healing and prayers on the island of Santa Catarina / O objetivo desta pesquisa é de que forma a população composta por africanos e afros brasileiros em Desterro (SC), especialmente as mulheres, benzedeiras, rezadeiras e curandeiras que se utilizavam dos conhecimentos ancestrais, para as práticas de cura entre 1844 a 1889 em Desterro (SC). Período este, em que estavam em voga os códigos de postura, os termos de bem viver em comunhão com o olhar médico higienista e o desejo de modernizar por parte das elites políticas locais, com a intenção de controlar as populações pobres e, consequentemente, as chamadas práticas de cura desenvolvidas pelas populações de origem africana. O Império e o início da República, com seus ideais de modernização, higienização e combate à insalubridade, pautados no saber absoluto da medicina, também tentaram regular as práticas chamadas de ″feitiçarias". Os inúmeros trabalhos que abordam a temática de curadores e benzedeiras em Santa Catarina, salvo poucas exceções, têm como enfoque principal, em sua maioria, mulheres brancas e supostamente descendentes de açorianas. A presença africana e suas práticas de cura ligadas ao atendimento aos doentes aparecem em segundo plano. Por esse motivo, esta pesquisa pretende abordar estas práticas presentes em Desterro e seus desdobramentos. Utilizamos como principal fonte de pesquisa, anúncios de jornais locais, inventário, ofícios e correspondências trocados entre a administração da província catarinense e o império, ligados às práticas de cura e rezas na ilha de Santa Catarina

This thesis is a journey into the realm of Spider Woman—the Cosmic Weaver—and explores ways in which Spider Woman figures and textile imagery became increasingly important and powerful healing metaphors in literature, during the rise of second wave feminism. Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle, Paula Gunn Allen's The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, and Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar illustrate the importance of these healing metaphors in women's fiction. Framing the analysis is Mary Daly's concept for creating a gynocentric literature (Gyn/Ecology) that escapes patriarchal linguistic constraints through the process of "spooking, sparking and spinning' new words and new stories on a "loom of our own."

This thesis is a journey into the realm of Spider Woman—the Cosmic Weaver—and explores ways in which Spider Woman figures and textile imagery became increasingly important and powerful healing metaphors in literature, during the rise of second wave feminism. Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle, Paula Gunn Allen's The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, and Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar illustrate the importance of these healing metaphors in women's fiction. Framing the analysis is Mary Daly's concept for creating a gynocentric literature (Gyn/Ecology) that escapes patriarchal linguistic constraints through the process of "spooking, sparking and spinning' new words and new stories on a "loom of our own."

This master s degree thesis is a ethnographic study on the religious works practiced by the female faith healers in the city of Itabaiana/SE. I attempt to show how these people exercise their cure practices in the several believers through the use of prayers and symbols such as the branch, the water, the oil, etc. Armed with these symbols, the female faith healers perform their healing rituals in private, within their own homes or in some other location such as the backyard, thus free from the interference of religions considered as official. In this research, besides of orality, we also relied on theoretical research of classical anthropology authors, as well as on contemporary authors. Therefore, this study shows that the female faith healers guide their life trajectory inside the popular Catholicism; however, they exercise their healing practices autonomously, fluidly, through symbolic exchanges and religious exchanges among the various spheres of popular and institutionalized religions. / Esta dissertação de mestrado é um estudo etnográfico acerca dos trabalhos religiosos exercidos pelas rezadeiras na cidade de Itabaiana/SE. Procuramos mostrar como essas pessoas exercem suas práticas de curas nos diversos fiéis, mediante o uso de orações e de símbolos como o ramo, a água, o óleo, etc. Munidos desses símbolos, as rezadeiras realizam suas curas em rituais privados, dentro de suas próprias casas ou em algum outro local, como o quintal, livres assim da interferência das religiões tidas como oficiais. Nesta pesquisa, além da oralidade, baseamo-nos também em pesquisa teórica de autores clássicos da antropologia, bem como de autores contemporâneos. Esse estudo, portanto, vem mostrar que as rezadeiras pautam sua trajetória de vida no interior do catolicismo popular; no entanto, exercem suas práticas de curas de forma autônoma, fluida, mediante trocas simbólicas e intercâmbios religiosos entre as várias esferas das religiões populares e institucionalizadas.

This study investigates two central research problems. These are: What are the healing practices of Aeta women? What are the implications of the healing practices of Aeta women in the academic discourse? This inquiry is important for the following reasons: (a) it focuses a reconsidered gaze and empirical lens on the healing practices of Aeta women healers as well as the lessons, insights and perspectives which may have been previously missed; (b) my research attempts not to be 'neutral' but instead be an exercise in participatory action research and as such hopefully brings a new space of decolonization by documenting Aeta women healers’ contributions in the political and academic arena; and (c) it is an original contribution to postcolonial, anti-colonial and Indigenous feminist theories particularly through its demonstration the utility of these theories in understanding the health of Indigenous peoples and global health. There are 12 Aeta women healers who participated in the Talking Circle. This study is significant in grounding both the theory and the methodology while comparatively evaluating claims calibrated against the benchmark of the actual narratives of Aeta women healers. These evaluations subsequently categorized my findings into three themes: namely, identity, agency and representation. This work is also important in illustrating the Indigenous communities’ commonalities on resistance, accommodation, evolution and devolution of social institutions and leadership through empirical example. The work also sheds light on how the members of our Circle and their communities’ experiences with outsider intrusion and imposed changes intentionally structured to dominate them as Indigenous people altered our participants and their communities. Though the reactions of the Aeta were and are unique in this adaptive process they join a growing comparative scholarly discussion on how contexts for colonization were the same or different. This thesis therefore joins a growing comparative educational literature on the contextual variations among global experiences with colonization. This is important since Indigenous Peoples' experiences are almost always portrayed as unique or “exotic”. I can now understand through comparison that many of the processes from military to pedagogical impositions bore striking similarities across various colonial, geographical and cultural locations.

This study investigates two central research problems. These are: What are the healing practices of Aeta women? What are the implications of the healing practices of Aeta women in the academic discourse? This inquiry is important for the following reasons: (a) it focuses a reconsidered gaze and empirical lens on the healing practices of Aeta women healers as well as the lessons, insights and perspectives which may have been previously missed; (b) my research attempts not to be 'neutral' but instead be an exercise in participatory action research and as such hopefully brings a new space of decolonization by documenting Aeta women healers’ contributions in the political and academic arena; and (c) it is an original contribution to postcolonial, anti-colonial and Indigenous feminist theories particularly through its demonstration the utility of these theories in understanding the health of Indigenous peoples and global health. There are 12 Aeta women healers who participated in the Talking Circle. This study is significant in grounding both the theory and the methodology while comparatively evaluating claims calibrated against the benchmark of the actual narratives of Aeta women healers. These evaluations subsequently categorized my findings into three themes: namely, identity, agency and representation. This work is also important in illustrating the Indigenous communities’ commonalities on resistance, accommodation, evolution and devolution of social institutions and leadership through empirical example. The work also sheds light on how the members of our Circle and their communities’ experiences with outsider intrusion and imposed changes intentionally structured to dominate them as Indigenous people altered our participants and their communities. Though the reactions of the Aeta were and are unique in this adaptive process they join a growing comparative scholarly discussion on how contexts for colonization were the same or different. This thesis therefore joins a growing comparative educational literature on the contextual variations among global experiences with colonization. This is important since Indigenous Peoples' experiences are almost always portrayed as unique or “exotic”. I can now understand through comparison that many of the processes from military to pedagogical impositions bore striking similarities across various colonial, geographical and cultural locations.

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