HEALTH PRODUCTION IN A TERREIO TRADITIONAL COMMUNITY OF AFRICAN MATRIX: THE BIO-MYTHICAL-SOCIAL SUBJECT the bio-mythical-social individual

Abstract

This article aims to understand the processes of health production in a terreiro traditional community of African matrix, problematizing the dialog between the Western civilization paradigm and the African Black. It is a qualitative study that sought the dialogue between what we call the "recursive method" and ethnography. Twenty people from a terreiro traditional community of Batuque, Jeje-Nàgô tradition, from the city of Porto Alegre, RS, participated. For information production, was used a participatory observation, or field diary, as well as open interviews and a discussion group. The complexity of the civilizing dynamics of the terreiro cannot be understood by categories of analysis of the western civilizational paradigm. It is necessary to break with the hegemony of Eurocentric thought in the expectation of progressively inscribing and making visible in the academic scene other ways of understanding the world, other rationalities in the study of human, social and health sciences.