Abstract

CAMARA, Yls Rabelo  and  FIALHO, Lia Machado Fiuza. THE HEALTHY ROLE OF BRAZILIAN FEMALE FOLK HEALERS FROM THE PAST AND FROM THE PRESENT: RESIGNIFICATIONS AND CONTINUITIES. Eccos Rev. Cient. [online]. 2021, n.59, e14185.  Epub Feb 07, 2024. ISSN 1983-9278.  https://doi.org/10.5585/eccos.n59.14185.

This bibliographic survey comes from our postdoctoral concern about the importance of Brazilian folk healers in the past and in the present time. Their genesis in Brazilian lands occurred at the beginning of the colonization of the country, when their ancestors came here along with bandeirantes, outlaws, physicists, barbers and midwives. Mixing their knowledge with that of the indigenous, and later with that of the African slaves, those popular healers have remained operative up to the present day, overcoming the various persecutions they have been suffering throughout those five centuries, reframing their role and adapting themselves to the reality of their contexts. In order to base our positions on this article, we base ourselves on theorists of the area such as: Câmara, Sanz-Mingo and Câmara (2016), Conceição (2008), Rosario et al. (2014), Stancik (2009) and Theotonio (2011) - to cite some. We conclude that more than five hundred years after their arrival in Brazilian lands, female folk healers have maintained themselves as a reference of health provision in physical, mental, spiritual and social levels; they have been indispensable so far and will surely be necessary in the future.

Keywords : female brazilian folk healers; popular medicine; redesign..

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