Indigenous cosmovision on health thematic

an intercultural teaching experience

Abstract

This paper presents an intercultural teaching experience in the indigenous higher education, which resignify the choice of contents and educational strategies in the health sciences teaching. Data were collected from a retrospective observational study, bibliographic and documentary research, as well as in works produced, from March to July 2016, by indigenous students of the Intercultural Indige- nous Licentiate at the Federal University of Amapá. Based on content analysis, approach of the qualitati- ve method and systematization of experience, as proposed by Minayo (2010) and Holliday (2006), the data were analyzed. The result documents indigenous knowledge in written texts and drawings in the indigenous teachers training, revealing aspects of the Wajãpi, Palikur, Apalai, Wayana, Tiryió, Karipuna, Galibi Marworno, and Galibi Kalinã cultures, besides a teaching practice in a multicultural context, and the indigenous cosmovision on health theme. Indigenous cosmovision encompasses pieces knowledge and beliefs in spirits and supernatural beings, etiology of diseases related to breaches of rules of respect for nature, the role of the shaman in the healing process, the traditional indigenous medicine, and the relationship between health and nature preservation.