scholarly journals AS PRÁTICAS CULTURAIS/RELIGIOSAS AFROINDÍGENAS NA AMAZÔNIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Elivaldo Serrão Custódio ◽  
Piedade Lino Videira ◽  
Moisés de Jesus Prazeres Dos Santos Bezerra

O presente texto tem por objetivo analisar as práticas culturais/religiosas afroindígenas no cenário da Amazônia. A cosmovisão religiosa dos povos da floresta e seus referenciais espaciais são materializados por meio das práticas mágico-religiosas de cura, pajelanças, benzeções e o manejo das plantas medicinais, bem como pela assistência terapêutica realizada por puxadeiras e parteiras, exemplificando assim a riqueza e densidade simbólica construída por essas comunidades tradicionais ao longo da história e do encontro entre matrizes étnico-religiosas distintas. Entre as práticas afroindígenas, destaca-se as cerimônias religiosas do catolicismo popular como festejos a santos, ladainhas, cortejos e folias, rituais de cura, entre outros. CULTURAL / RELIGIOUS AFROINDIGENOUS PRACTICES IN THE AMAZON The present text has as objective to analyze Afroindigenous cultural / religious practices in the Amazonian scenario. The religious worldview of the forest peoples and their spatial referents are materialized through magical-religious practices of healing, pajelias, blessings and the management of medicinal plants, as well as therapeutic assistance performed by pullers and midwives, thus exemplifying wealth and density symbolism built by these traditional communities throughout history and the encounter between distinct ethnic-religious matrices. Among the Afroindigenous practices, the religious ceremonies of popular Catholicism such as festivities to saints, litanies, processions and rituals, healing rituals, among others, stand out.

Planta Medica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 81 (S 01) ◽  
pp. S1-S381
Author(s):  
JP Ferreira-Neto ◽  
RJSA Padilha ◽  
ERB Santana ◽  
DN Gomes ◽  
KXFR Sena ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Amos Darkwe Asare

While many in Ghana prefer modern medical systems, others use indigenous means such as those emanating from shrines and indigenous sects. Today, many religious practices in Ghana focus a greater part of their services on healing and the general wellbeing of its members. The formation of African Indigenous Churches (AICs) has played a central role in bridging the gap between indigenous and Christian concepts of worship, healing, and wellbeing. The Twelve Apostles Church, first of the AICs in Ghana, is prominent as far as good health and the wellbeing of its members are concerned. These indigenous musical healing practices are seldom recognised for their significant contribution towards good health and wellbeing. In this article, I use an ethnographic approach, employing interviews and participant observation, to describe the significance of the musical healing rituals of the Twelve Apostles Church in Ghana. The question is, how does drumming, dancing, and singing in the Twelve Apostles Church contribute to good health and wellbeing?


2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 198
Author(s):  
Mary Anne Vieira Silva ◽  
Maria Idelma Vieira D'Abadia

Resumo As festas religiosas na contemporaneidade tornam-se dinamizadoras de articulações das ordens social, simbólica e cultural e são capazes de promover profícuas relações sociais que se materializam no plano espacial. O catolicismo popular garante a constituição de uma teia de significados vivida e vivenciada nos e pelos diversos ritos e ritualísticas essenciais do espaço das festas religiosas, aqui em especial, as de padroeiros(as). No estado de Goiás, essas celebrações, sobretudo, as pertencentes a vertente do catolicismo popular, apresentam-se como ligas identitárias. Elas perpassam as práticas eminentemente religiosas traduzindo-se como vínculos territoriais estabelecidos entre o habitante/devoto, o não-habitante/devoto com o lugar da festa. Para o presente texto ocorrerá uma análise sobre a festa de Nossa Senhora do Rosário em Goiás, santa padroeira de três municípios e comemorada em outros quinze municípios por meio de congadas, folias e reinados. Metodologicamente, o recorte espacial para a análise é delimitado às cidades de Pirenópolis e Monte Alegre. Objetiva-se apresentar a referida festa por meio da teia simbólica traduzida nas imagens, bem como pela valorização dos roteiros de observações construídos durante as visitas in loco. Palavras-chave: Reinado do Rosário, festa religiosa, Pirenópolis, Monte Alegre de Goiás. Abstract The religious feasts nowadays have become driving forces of articulations of symbolical, cultural and social orders and are able to promote positive social relations which materialize on the spatial plan. Popular Catholicism ensures the constitution of a web of meanings lived and experienced in and by several rites and ritualistic practices which are essential for religious feasts. Particularly here, the patron saints ones. In the state of Goiás, these celebrations, especially those belonging to the popular Catholicism are presented as identity binds. They surpass practices which are eminently religious by translating into territorial links established between resident/devotee and non-resident/devotee to the place of the feast. The present text will present an analysis of the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary , the patron saint of three municipalities in Goias, also celebrated in fifteen other municipalities in the form of regional feasts (congadas, follies and reigns). Methodologically, the spatial cutting for the analysis is delimited to the cities of Pirenópolis and Monte Alegre. The goal is to present the referred feast through a symbolic web translated into the images, as well as by an appreciation of the observation criteria built during on-site visits. Key words: Rosary reign, religious feast, Pirenópolis, Monte Alegre de Goiás Resumé Les fêtes religieuses dans la contemporanéité sont devenu facilitateurs des articulations des ordre social, symbolique et culturel et sont capables de promouvoir relations sociaux frutueux que se matérialisent dans le plan spatial. Le catholicisme populaire assure la constitution d’une toile de significations vecú et experimenté dans et pour les divers rites et ritualistes essenciaux de l’espace des fêtes religieuses, en special ici, les une de saintes patrons. Dans l’état de Goiás, cettes célébrations, surtout lequelles qui appartient au catholicisme populaire, elles se present comme alliages d’identité. Elles imprègnent les pratiques plutot religieuses, en se traduisant comme des liens territoriaux établis entre l’habitant/devote, le non habitant/devote avec le lieu de la fête. Pour ce present texte se produira une analyse sur la fête de Nossa Senhora do Rosário dans Goiás, la sainte patron de trois municipalités et celebré dans autres quinze municipalités par des célébrations religieuse regionaux. Comme méthodologie le coupe spatial pour l’analyse est delimite à deux villes, Pirenópolis et Monte Alegre. L’objectif est de presenter cette fête par une toile symbolique traduit dans les images, aussi bien que par l’appréciation des scénarios d’obervation construit durant les visites in loco. Mots Clés: Royaume de Rosário, fête religieuse, Pirenópolis, Monte Alegre de Goiás.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.29) ◽  
pp. 980
Author(s):  
Amran Alias ◽  
Hood Salleh ◽  
Shaharuddin Mohamad Ismail ◽  
Sarah Aziz Abdul Ghani Aziz ◽  
Mohd Suhaidi Salleh ◽  
...  

Traditional knowledge related to medicinal plants of the indigenous people are indeed a useful asset for the community. The knowledge that had been traditionally inherited from their ancestors is an integral part of their survival as they live symbiotically with the forests. While many researches and literatures are focusing on documenting and recording these knowledge, not much has been researched in understanding the holistic process of the knowledge management particularly at the indigenous community level. This paper provides an attempt to reveal empirical findings about the management and use of medicinal plants in ailment healing rituals. In order to enable a holistic view of the management of knowledge at the study site, the main question asked was what happened during the four processes of knowledge management namely knowledge generation, knowledge codification, knowledge utilization and knowledge transfer. Using the Batek community of Kuala Koh, Gua Musang, in the state of Kelantan as a case study, ethnographic methods of individual and group interviews, observations and participants observations as well as document analysis, were employed to gather the data from the study site and the grounded theory approach was used for data analysis to enable the emergence of the themes to understand the phenomena at the study site. The study, conducted from 2014-2016, involved prolonged stays with the community. The findings revealed that there was an ‘undocumented means of knowledge generation with potential loss of traditional knowledge’, while there was a non-codified knowledge being practiced in the community and widespread inability of basic reading and writing skills among younger generation. In addition, there was a high level of traditional knowledge utilisation in the community but some procedures such as ritual practices have been simplified while there was a complete absence of documentation of traditional knowledge by members of the community that might weaken knowledge transfer. 


2016 ◽  
Vol 184 ◽  
pp. 154-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mushtaq Ahmad ◽  
Muhammad Pukhtoon Zada Khan ◽  
Anam Mukhtar ◽  
Muhammad Zafar ◽  
Shazia Sultana ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Shivesh Pandey

<div><p><em>The Indian sub-continent is inhabited by 53 million tribal populations belonging to over 550 tribal communities that come under 227 linguistic groups. They inhibit varied geographic and climatic Zones of the country. Their vocation ranges from hunting, gathering, cave dwelling nomadics to societies with settled culture living in complete harmony with nature. Forests have been their dear home and totally submitted themselves to forest settings. Their relationship with the forest was symbolic in nature. They have been utilizing the resources without disturbing the delicate balance of the eco-system. Tribals thus mostly remained as stable societies and were unaffected by the social, cultural, material and economic evolutions that were taking place with the so called civilized societies. But this peaceful co-existence of the tribals has been disturbed in recent years by the interference in their habitats. Traditional communities living close to nature have, over the years acquired unique knowledge about the use of living biological resources. Modernisation, especially industrialization and urbanisation has endangered the rich heritage of knowledge and expertise of age old wisdom of the traditional communities. A study on the utilization of local tribals revealed that they hold precious knowledge on the specific use of a large number of agents of wild plant and animal origins, the use of many are hitherto unknown to the outside world. The tribal people are the real custodians of the medicinal plants and thus by using their talents they can be developed as real custodian of Health Care in Indigenous field. </em></p><p><em>The present paper explains how medicinal the knowledge of medicinal plants can prove to be an ideal alternative for tribal development especially in the area of Health Care.</em></p></div>


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolanda Sari

The use of plants by traditional communities is examined in ethnobotany studies. Ethnobotany is the study of the relationship between people in a region and plants or the interaction of local people with their environment, especially plants. The use of plants as medicines by the community, one of which is in the area of Jorong Indarung Kanagarian Aie Tajun, Lubuk Alung Regency, Padang Pariaman District. Indarung Jorong community uses plants as traditional medicine consisting of single drugs and medicinal herbs. Knowledge of medicinal plants is obtained from people who know about medicinal plants (shamans) in the area. This research uses descriptive method with observation and direct interview techniques. Observations are made by direct observation to the field and sampling according to the required criteria and interviews are conducted directly with the experts of medicinal plants (shamans) in the Indarung Kanagarian Aia Tajun. Data on how to use medicinal plants by the community is presented in table form. From the results of research on ethnobotany, medicinal plants in Jorong Indarung Kanagarian Aia Tajun, Lubuk Alung Regency, Padang Pariaman District, found as many as 106 species of medicinal plants consisting of 49 families that can treat 32 kinds of diseases. The most widely used part of medicinal plants is leaves with a percentage of 45.98%. The use of medicinal plants is used as an external medicine and internal medicine. The most commonly used internal medicine is taken while the external drug is the most widely used method, which is applied or applied.


2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 151-162
Author(s):  
Laura Dev ◽  

The term “Anthropocene” is frequently used to refer to the present planetary epoch, characterized by a geological signature of human activities, which have led to global ecological crises. This paper probes at what it means to be human on earth now, using healing as a concept to orient humanity in relation to other species, and particularly medicinal plants. Donna Haraway’s concept of the “Chthulucene” is used as an alternate lens to the Anthropocene, which highlights the inextricable linkages between humans and other-than-human species. Healing can be viewed as a type of embodied orientation or engagement with the world, which has the potential to reach across boundaries of the skin, blur distinctions between self and other, and allow for both transpersonal and trans-species reconciliation. I focus my attention on Indigenous Shipibo healing rituals, and Shipibo concepts of healing that integrate humans within the ecosystem, and traverse species boundaries through communication with and embodiment of plant spirits. These healing rituals offer ways of coming into being within an ecology of selves—both internal and external, human and non-human—through listening and lending voice. I explore the potential for healing and ritual to work as a form of porous resistance through the internal blurring of binaries and hierarchical structures.


2020 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUIZ EVERSON DA SILVA ◽  
WANDERLEI DO AMARAL ◽  
MARCOS MACHADO DA SILVA ◽  
ADRIANA LUCINDA DE OLIVEIRA

Abstract This study describes the use of native species of the Paraná Coastal. The work was carried out with traditional communities of the region with the objective of contemplating the genetic resources available in the forest, local cultural diversity and the sustainable use of natural resources. The approach taken to the interviewees followed a guideline, with information on the identification of respondents, data referring to Medicinal Plants and Non-Conventional Food Plants. There were 67 plants with some uses mentioned. It was identified that in the community 64% of the residents interviewed were retired and live on fishing and farming. It was observed that women have extensive knowledge about medicinal plants, men already know much more about tree species destined to the construction, either of boats or houses. It was verified the importance of the traditional knowledge about the medicinal plants for the discovery of bioactive compounds and income generation.


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