Bodies and healing in the city: Nosological categorizations related to Covid-19 among residents of a Tikuna community in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
CATEGORIZAÇÕES NOSOLÓGICAS RELACIONADAS AO COVID-19 ENTRE MORADORES DE UMA COMUNIDADE TIKUNA DE MANAUS, AMAZONAS, BRASIL.
Abstract
The health emergency represented by the Covid-19 pandemic was particularly challenging for indigenous people residing in Brazilian cities in the Amazon. Based on an intervention project, the article combines the references of epidemiology and anthropology in the quest to build a cultural inventory of the nosological categories related to the process of becoming ill by Covid-19, as well as the physiological aspects and the related flows and therapeutic practices to this grievance in an indigenous community in Manaus, Amazonas, based on the understanding that, despite its biological aspect, the pandemic was understood from cultural and social filters. Such systematized knowledge will make it possible to build approaches that are more sensitive to the access needs of indigenous people in cities.