Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: SAMARA NATANI FONTOURA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : SAMARA NATANI FONTOURA
DATE: 16/06/2025
TIME: 10:05
LOCAL: meet.google.com/ntv-wios-wao
TITLE:

Quilombola Women and Ancestral Health Care Knowledge

KEY WORDS:

Keywords: Care. Health of Quilombola Women. Health Equity. Ancestral Knowledge

PAGES: 54
BIG AREA: Ciências da Saúde
AREA: Saúde Coletiva
SUMMARY:

The ancestral knowledge of healing and healthcare constitutes a legacy of Brazil’s intangible cultural heritage. In the quilombola communities of Northeastern Brazil, it is the women who evoke ancestral resistance, presenting a societal model through the close relationship among living beings (people + plants + rivers + forests + land and the environment in general). The notion of female quilombola ancestral resistance is linked to the concept of collective care, the transmission of knowledge, and the affective relationships established within the territory. However, in the field of Public Health, academic production on the sociocultural determinants in the healthcare process remains incipient, especially in traditional quilombola communities in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. This gap reveals a lack of dialogue between cultural health systems, namely, ancestral and biomedical knowledge. Based on these premises, this research aims to understand how healthcare is practiced in a quilombola community in the interior of Rio Grande do Norte, based on the assumption that quilombola women play a fundamental role as guardians of ancestral knowledge in integrative healing and care practices within their communities. To this end, narrative interviews were conducted with quilombola women, following the life history technique, to map the main care practices used in the Quilombola Community of Gameleira, located in the municipality of São Tomé, within the 4th Regional Unit of Public Health of the state of Rio Grande do Norte. The analysis of the narratives that emerged from the interviews will be carried out using thematic analysis, which follows four stages: 1) exhaustive reading of the narratives; 2) grouping of core meanings and themes; 3) creation of analytical categories; and 4) creation of thematic categories. It is expected that the results will contribute to making visible the ancestral knowledge practiced by quilombola women in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, thereby promoting dialogue between cultural health systems and recognizing these practices as integrative in health. Furthermore, it is believed that acknowledging the ancestral knowledge of healing and care is part of the effort to consolidate the principle of equity within Brazil’s Unified Health System (SUS)

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2612129 - MERCÊS DE FÁTIMA DOS SANTOS SILVA
Interna - ***.042.883-** - ALYNNE MENDONÇA SARAIVA NAGASHIMA - UFCG
Externa ao Programa - 1934762 - FERNANDA DINIZ DE SA - UFRN