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Questions of Methodologie in Research into Use of Medicinal Plants in Belém Folk-Medicine (Brazil)

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In einem Bezirk der Stadt Belém/Brasilien, in dem eine Fischergruppe lebt, werden Krankheitsklassifikationen wie z.B. ‘Körperkrankheit’, ‘Geisteskrankheit’, ‘weltliche Krankheit’ (bei Geschlechtskrankheiten) etc. und deren Ursachenzuerkennung untersucht. Ebenso wird eine kulturspezifische Einteilung der Pflanzen nach Nutzung (Schmuck, Heilung etc.) erhoben. In diesem ‘Volksheilsystem’ arbeiten traditionelle Heiler entsprechend einer vorgegebenen Arbeitsteilung. Krankheitsursache und -therapie sind deutlich entlang der Dichotomie Kultur-Natur strukturiert.

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Classification of disease as ‘disease of the body’, ‘disease of the world’ (venerai disease), ‘evil’, and others are described and their etiological model is studied (provoked and non-provoked disease) in one quarter of Belém/Brazil. Plants are grouped in their specific cultural context ans plants for usage, for curing, for decorative ends, to be eaten... In this folk healing-system traditional healers are working as well defined specialists. The cause of a disease and its therapy are structured by the dichotomy of culture/nature.

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Dans un quartier de Belém/Brésil, où vit un groupe de pêcheurs, a été entreprise une étude des classifications des maladies en “maladies du corps”, “maladie de l’esprit”, etc., et des conceptions étiologiques. Les plantes y sont classées d’après leurs usages, thérapeutiques, décoratifs, alimentaires... Dans ce système de santé populaire, les guérisseurs traditionnels ont des spécialités bien définies. L’étiologie et la thérapeutique dépendent de la dichotomie culture/nature.

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Figueiredo, N. (1985). Questions of Methodologie in Research into Use of Medicinal Plants in Belém Folk-Medicine (Brazil). In: Ethnobotanik—Ethnobotany. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-14132-7_28

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