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1. Povos faxinalenses: saúde e conhecimentos tradicionais.

Author

Benatte, Antonio Paulo, Campigoto, José Adilçon, and do Nascimento, Josimar de Jesus Vitor

Subjects
*TRADITIONAL knowledge, *TRADITIONAL medicine, *HEALERS, *COMMONS, *ORAL history, *METHODOLOGY, *MANNERS & customs, *RESEARCH, BRAZILIAN folklore
Abstract

Current paper deals with traditional knowledge on blessings, cures and power to cure found in Palmeira PR Brazil and the region around the municipality. Blessings and their relationship with the sacred are correlated to the culture of communal land system peoples and to the history of mule transportation in southern Brazil. Oral history is the methodology employed to understand the cultural world of the communal land system peoples through Foucauldian genealogy for the analysis of cure and curing power discourses [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2013
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2. Os faxinais de Irati-PR na década de 1940: a força de uma cultura tradicional.

Author

Sochodolak, Hélio and Maneira, Regiane

Subjects
*COMMONS, *AGRICULTURE, *AGRICULTURAL pests, *SWINE breeding, *CLASSICAL swine fever, *ORAL history, *CULTURAL history, *HISTORY, *RESEARCH, BRAZILIAN history
Abstract

Common-land-system is characterized by the use of common land for animal breeding and grazing. Current paper is fine-tuned to the occurrences of grasshopper infestation and swine fever within the communal land system in the 1940s in the region of Irati PR Brazil. Investigation focuses on the practice and meanings of common land users appropriated by the above-mentioned occurrences since the latter tested the common land system and the survival and permanence of its users in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2013
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