Baskets of knowledge for care and health: Rionegrina women as daughters of Amaro and their inter-ethnic networks in São Gabriel da Cachoeira

• Grant number: 24/03932-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate (Direct)
• Start date: April 01, 2024
• End date: March 31, 2028
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: José Miguel Nieto Olivar
• Grantee: Elizangela da Silva Costa
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Saúde Pública (FSP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 21/06897-9 - Cosmopolitics of care in the end of the world: gender, borders, and pluri-epistemic assemblages with public health, AP.JP2

Abstract

The starting point for this project is an indigenous woman who is an artisan, farmer, mother, teacher, leader, speaker of the Nheengatu language and researcher studying for a Master's degree in Public Health at USP. She lives in the Cue-Cue Marabitanas Indigenous Land, in the municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira/Amazonas. The aim of this research is to promote female knowledge and the effects of the Kariãma/Baskets of Knowledge, through the narratives of the creation of humanity and the ancestral home of the Indigenous Woman - the myth of the primordial woman called "Amaro". In addition, this research affirms "Baré Indigenous Knowledge" - teachings inherited according to the mythology and rituals of the Baré people - and "Traditional Medicine", which aims to care for and protect the body, mind and territory. This project also asks how the women of Rionegrina, who have gone through various forms of colonization and lust for power and wealth, can keep their ancestral memories alive. Through writing and orality, stories, songs, kariãma rites of passage, food, ornaments, languages, sacred places and medicinal plants will be recorded. With this, we hope to bring to the academic space the social relationships that are built between the women of Rionegrina. The dialog will take place with the women of the Baré and Baniwa people who live near the Amaro lake, with the women of the Tuyuka people in the urban context, and with the women of the Dâw people who live in front of the municipality of São Gabriel to understand how inter-ethnic care networks are made. (AU)