The knowledge and self-care practices of the quilombola community in Laranjal, Mato Grosso

Abstract

This article seeks to present the knowledge and self-care practices of the quilombola community of Laranjal, located in the municipality of Poconé in the state of Mato Grosso. The term self-care can be understood as the set of knowledge and practices that are combined collectively and in articulation with memory and territory, expressing themselves in different ways, including: home remedies, the practice of benignation, the practice of childbirth and protection. Some results will emancipate from the research, for example, as notions of collective memory, territory, knowledge and processes as collective and relational, fundamental in the process of knowledge transmission. The term “quilombo remnant” will be questioned from the question of how the community thinks about this category and how it presents itself not only as a place of collective memory, but as a political place. The methodology used for an ethnographic research. Held between 2015 and 2016 through the Scientific Initiation Program. The ethnographic research was designed inseparably from the conceptual review, the conformation, the experience of the spaces and the textualization of the field diary. The choice of the theme is shown to be essential because it encompasses specific forms of knowledge and agencies, emancipating in response to decolonial studies.