"Vovó me disse que isso também cura!": práticas populares de cura entre mulheres em Oiapoque - Amapá contribuição para uma educação escolar insurgente

Abstract

This thesis aims to present healing practices among women in Oiapoque - AP, to provide an electronic book (e-book), in Portable Document Format (PDF), as an Educational Product, which considers popular cultural practices of healing, not underlined in a school culture of colonialist bias. The study seeks to instigate reflection on the local/regional and the place of the knowledge of the subalterns in school education and for the teaching of History, through a book in digital format of youth literature called "Grandma told me that this also heals!". It is presented as a locus for research that resulted in the Educational Product, the space between Amapá (Brazil) and French Guiana (France), as a point of singular ethnic interactions. Popular healing practices include pulling, food prohibitions, blessings, prayers, counseling, indication and preparation of medicines and others, encompassing a plurality of ways of doing and conceiving the world. They are of multiple genesis, resulting from ethnic interactions and cultural recreations and are dissipated among midwives, healers, healers, descendants of peoples who live and arrived in the municipality of Oiapoque, regardless of the physical markers that limit the border. The qualitative research for the study included the collection and analysis of documentary sources and semi-structured interviews with women healers, to understand healing practices, application of questionnaires with high school teachers to format the Educational Product, in addition to bibliographic research. The study allowed reflections on a decolonial perspective for education that highlights popular knowledge.