"Jurema, sua folha cura e sua flecha mata": os sentidos de saúde e doença na jurema sagrada.

Abstract

Health, illness and cure are conceptions that not only enclose the biological aspects, but also diverse social elements in his constructions. The religions, beyond constituting important part in the process of construction of these conceptions, act directly in the practical ones of maintenance of the health, confrontation of the illness and attainment of the cure. This work analyzes, from the Laplantine’s Etiologic/Therapeutics Models, as well as of the Analysis of The Rhetoric of Transformation in Ritual Healing, presented for Csordas, the construction of these categories between the practitioners of the Culto a Jurema Sagrada, belief this that encloses Aboriginal elements, Christian and afro-Brazilians. The used methodology articulated bibliographical survey, participant observation and thematic interviews concerning the questions of health, illness and cure lived by the citizens of the research, analyzing the gotten speeches and absorbing from there its directions.