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The meaning attributed to the health-disease process by the elderly of the Makuxi ethnicity, Roraima, Brazil / O significado atribuído ao processo saúde-doença por idosos da etnia Makuxi, Roraima, Brasil
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ABSTRACT
The objective of this study was to describe the meanings, representations of health and illness and therapeutic practices in the sociocultural context of the Makuxi indigenous elderly, from acertain community, in the Raposa/Serra do Sol Indigenous Land. This is a qualitative and exploratory study, based on ethnographic assumptions, carried out with 20 indigenous people. Data were collected in January 2020, through a semi-structured questionnaire, and submitted to Bardin's content analysis, and textual analysis using the Iramuteq software. The understanding of health and illness for the Makuxi elderly makes up questions of their daily life such as the importance of working in the countryside, the consumption of typical foods of the culture and aspects of the elderly. The illness process, in his view, is strongly linked to the spell, and the search for traditional treatment is common in these cases, but the therapeutic itinerary occurs between traditional and biomedical systems. It is concluded that the knowledge of the health-disease process of the indigenous elderly has a strong cultural content associated with the Makuxi cosmovision, but which has already undergone transformations due to contact with non-indigenous people.
RESUMO
O objetivo deste estudo foi descrever os significados, representações de saúde e doença e as práticas terapêuticas no contexto sociocultural dos idosos indígenas Makuxi, de uma determinada comunidade, na Terra Indígena Raposa/Serra do Sol. Trata-se de um estudo qualitativo e exploratório, fundamentado pelos pressupostos etnográficos, realizado com 20 indígenas. Os dados foram coletados no mês de janeiro de 2020, por intermédio de um questionário semiestruturado, e submetidos a análise de conteúdo de Bardin, e análise textual por meio do software Iramuteq. O entendimento de saúde e doença para os idosos Makuxi compõe questões de sua vida cotidiana como a importância do trabalho na roça, o consumo de alimentos típicos da cultura e aspectos da terceira idade. O processo de adoecimento, em sua visão, está fortemente ligado ao feitiço, e a busca pelo tratamento tradicional é comum nestes casos, mas o itinerário terapêutico ocorre entre os sistemas tradicionais e biomédico. Conclui-se que o conhecimento do processo saúde doença dos idosos indígenas possui um forte teor cultural associado à cosmovisão Makuxi, mas que já sofreu transformações devido ao contato com não indígenas.
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Qualitative_research
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Determinantes_sociais_saude
Country/Region as subject:
America do sul
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Brasil
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Year:
2022
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