Corte a mortalha: o cálculo humano da morte infantil no Ceará

Nations, Marilyn K.; Fajardo, Ananyr Porto

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“…Até para Catarina, agente de saúde (Ma), falar disto produz medo e estresse: ". Nations 11 , entrevistando mães enlutadas no Ceará, na mesma época, revela que a morte de crianças era expressa como "desespero", "sofrimento" e "anjinho". São percepções e sentimentos que pouco aparecem nos discursos dos gestores e agentes de saúde.…”

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“…Na literatura científica nacional encontramos alguns destes prováveis determinantes: a implantação do Programa de Agentes Comunitários de Saúde (PACS), a implantação do Programa Saúde da Família (PSF), alterações no financiamento da atenção básica, as estratégias das políticas de saúde, campanhas de mídia em massa, as competências culturais das mães empobrecidas e combate à desidratação pelas rezadeiras 7,8,9,10,11 .…”

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Múltiplos olhares sobre a mortalidade infantil no Ceará, Brasil

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Nations

2011

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Múltiplos olhares sobre a mortalidade infantil no Ceará, Brasil

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2011

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“…Nations (2010), for example, conducted research in the interior of the state of Ceará, in the 1980s that demonstrated, among other aspects, a higher number of infant death than that verified by a previous epidemiological study used in official health care data. Using a qualitative approach, the author inferred that a possible explanation for this fact was related to the meaning system operating in the location studied.…”

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Jurupari se suicidou?: notas para investigação do suicídio no contexto indígena

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2014

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Several evidences shows that in Brazil, suicide mortality rates of some indigenous people are significantly higher than national and regional rates. Furthermore, evidence points to the difficulties to transport biomedical categories to the indigenous societies, because they use specific symbolic references to understand the health-disease process and the death. The aim of this paper was to reflect on the difficulties to use the concept of suicide in the indigenous context, an important principle to explore this theme from a less ethnocentric way. The proposed way for this was to resort to the so-called "anthropological strangeness" of the biomedical concept of suicide. To this end, we did an analysis of an indigenous myth that is widespread in the Upper Rio Negro region, the myth of Jurupari, using three guiding questions: Jurupari wanted to die?; Jurupari died?; Who killed Jurupari? To answer these questions we used the ethnographic information about suicide among Brazilian indigenous. Through the performed analysis, the difficulty to transport the biomedical concept of suicide to the indigenous context was demonstrated. This was down when we presented: i) the amplification of the difficulties to speak of intentionality in this context, ii) the different indigenous conceptions about death and dying, iii) the complex correlation between suicide and homicide in native's etiological systems. Finally, even in a preliminary way, some potential difficulties and possible ways to approach indigenous suicide by qualitative and quantitative strategies was presented. Keywords: Suicide; Indigenous Population; Interdisciplinary. Maximiliano Loiola Ponte de Souza ResumoNo Brasil, há indícios de que alguns povos indíge-nas apresentam taxas de mortalidade por suicídio significativamente superiores às taxas nacionais e regionais. Por outro lado, evidências apontam para as dificuldades de se transpor categorias biomédi-cas ao contexto das sociedades indígenas, tendo em vista que estes se valem de referenciais simbólicos particulares para compreender o processo saúde-doença e a morte. O objetivo deste artigo foi refletir sobre as dificuldades para utilização do conceito de suicídio no contexto indígena, ponto crucial para abordagem deste tema através de uma perspectiva menos etnocêntrica. O caminho proposto para tal foi o de se recorrer ao chamado "estranhamento antropológico" do conceito biomédico de suicídio. Para tanto, nós fizemos a análise do mito do Jurupari amplamente difundido entre os povos indígenas da região do Alto Rio Negro, utilizando três perguntas norteadoras: Jurupari queria morrer?; Jurupari morreu?; Quem matou Jurupari? Para responder estas perguntas, recorreu-se a informações etnográficas sobre suicídio entre povos indígenas brasileiros. Através da análise realizada, demonstraram-se as dificuldades de transposição do conceito biomédico de suicídio para o contexto indígena. Isto foi feito na medida em que evidenciamos: 1) a amplificação das dificuldades de se falar de intencionalidade no contexto indíg...

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“…In Northeast Brazil with its staggering infant mortality rates (de Sousa & Nations, 2011), one can also expect elaborate local grief responses. Yet maternal 1 reactions to child death in this arid region have provoked debate amongst medical anthropologists for three decades (Lassalle & O’Dougherty, 1997; Nations, 2008, 2009; Nations & Rebhun, 1988; Rebhun, 1994; Sigaud, 1995).…”

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Dead-baby dreams, transfiguration and recovery from infant death trauma in northeast Brazil

Nations

2013

Transcult Psychiatry

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Maternal reactions to infant death in Northeast Brazil have been at the epicenter of anthropological debate since the 1980s. This ethnographic study of 45 death narratives by bereaved mothers collected from 1979-1989 in Pacatuba, Ceará, Brazil, refutes existing claims of mothers' "selective neglect" and "indifference" towards sick babies and emotionally empty grief response. I argue that through dead-baby dreams--and their imaginary transfiguration-grieving mothers alleviate infant death trauma. Feelings of hopelessness, helplessness, definitive loss, and personal guilt-the social seeds of depression--are reframed to deny death's finality and exonerate mothers from crippling self-blame. By transfiguring lingering mental images of the tiny cold corpse, mothers remold the irreversibility and definitiveness of death, gaining a sense of control over its unpredictable "jolt." In the politically oppressive Northeast Brazil--where social justice remains "an illusion"--mothers dream to preserve their own mental sanity and to recover from death's cruel aftermath. Any interpretation of mourning behavior must be contextualized within the local moral world and its "assumed structure of reality" to avoid demoralizing grieving Brazilian mothers and compounding their suffering. "You see, the only thing a poor woman truly owns that no one can borrow, cheat, steal or rob from her … is her imagination!" (Dona Chiquinha grieving death of her 10 children, Pacatuba, Ceará, Brazil).

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Corte a mortalha: o cálculo humano da morte infantil no Ceará

Cited by 6 publications

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Múltiplos olhares sobre a mortalidade infantil no Ceará, Brasil

Múltiplos olhares sobre a mortalidade infantil no Ceará, Brasil

Jurupari se suicidou?: notas para investigação do suicídio no contexto indígena

Dead-baby dreams, transfiguration and recovery from infant death trauma in northeast Brazil

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