Prates, Maria Paula;
(2021)
Birthing, corporality and care among the Guarani-Mbyá of southern Brazil.
Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology
, 18
, Article e18501. 10.1590/1809-43412021v18a501.
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Abstract
Abstract In this paper I draw attention to the happening of childbirth among the Guarani-Mbyá women. I highlight the centrality of a care language in the act of birth and of being born supported by the production of human bodies and kin. From Yva deliveries’ stories I explore the connection between silences, bodies and human and non-human socialities by interweaving it with native modes of care and a critical analysis of the medicalization of birth derived from the relationship with the “Juruá (“white”) system”. I emphasize a non-reductive understanding of life and health in the translation of epistelomogies of care between indigenous and biomedical sociocosmologies. The data presented are results from a long-term ethnographic research carried out among guarani-mbyá collectives of the southern Brazil.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Birthing, corporality and care among the Guarani-Mbyá of southern Brazil |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1590/1809-43412021v18a501 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-43412021v18a501 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online 2022. Original content in this article is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Delivery and Birth; Guarani-Mbyá; Epistemologies of care; Medicalisation of Birth; Corporeality |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10149416 |
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