Composing bodies with the COVID-19 vaccine: the cosmopolitics of health among Guarani peoples
Maria Paula Prates
Abstract:In this article, I focus on Guarani Indigenous peoples’ modalities of relating to, trusting, and distrusting the Brazilian Public Health System (SUS) and its agents during the Covid-19 pandemic. I compare relational configurations as a means to understand the reasons for a low take-up of Covid-19 vaccines among Kaiowá collectives in the first moment yet a high rate of vaccination among the Mbyá. I also discuss conceptions of health and the body in light of a guiding framework that aims to reflect on epidemiolo… Show more
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