Folhas e curas em imagens: a circulação do conhecimento no Rio de Janeiro e na Paraíba

Abstract

In the metropolitan area of the state of Rio de Janeiro and in the semiarid region of the state of Paraiba, there are hundreds of groups of women who voluntarily commit themselves to rescue traditional knowledge about health care with medicinalplants. Those groupsproducemedicinalpreparations,foodsupplements,soapsand ointments are organized in a network called RedeFitovida that transmits their knowledge through cultural events and claims recognition of such knowledge as their intangible heritage. In Paraiba, women organize themselves into committees within rural workers' unions seeking to improve workshops, meetings and interchange visits aiming to spread the use of medicinal plants. By using an anthropological methodology and audiovisual documentation, which allows a more careful look on the social phenomenon, this research aims to understand how those groups transmit their traditional knowledge. Besides written ethnography, this research presents seven short ethnographic documentaries. The purpose of this research is to examine and compare the mechanisms used by those groups to transmit their traditional knowledge. By using an anthropological methodology and audiovisual documentation, the research aims to offer a more careful look