Abstract

GOMEZ, Mauricio Múnera. BIOGRAPHICAL AND NARRATIVE METHODOLOGIES AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL PROCESSES AROUND HEALTH AND SICKNESS IN RURAL COMMUNITIES. Revista da FAEEBA: Educação e Contemporaneidade [online]. 2019, vol.28, n.56, pp.70-89.  Epub Oct 14, 2020. ISSN 2358-0194.  https://doi.org/10.21879/faeeba2358-0194.2019.v28.n56.p70-89.

This text presents some reflections about the use of biographical and narrative methodologies for developing researches around health and sickness in rural communities in North of Antioquia, Colombia. From the question how the peasant becomes in healer, it is possible to recognize the contribution of life stories as tools that allow the understanding of different trajectories and experiences of peasants, who carry out community health tasks. Based on the biographical and narrative methodologies, the text develops some strategies for information gathering: word circles, observation of practices, and stories of experiences. Thus, here are shown the practices for the care of the life that peasants develop and, in addition, the ways of initiating them as healers. Finally, the article recognizes the importance of biographical and narrative methodologies for the transformation of ways to research and to consolidate of other enunciation possibilities.

Keywords : Biographical and narrative methodologies; Life stories; Peasants; Life care practices.

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