As pandemias e a pandemia da Covid-19 no contexto dos povos indígenas: Impactos e modos de enfrentamento

Abstract

The aim of this study is to discuss the treatment of Covid-19 among indigenous communities, encompassing the official health system and traditional medicine, using categories such as culture, health and social representations. This academic work emcompasses a historical reflection on pandemics and Covid-19 pandemics and their overall impacts on humanity, focusing on brazilian native indigenous population and how these communities represent their practices about health and disease, according to their culture. At first, a brief outline was carried out on the main pandemics that plagued humanity, considering the human knowledge available at the time they came about, which led to different interpretations concerning diseases and their etiologies and healings. Afterwards, the impacts of the Convid-19 pandemics were analysed, based on conceptions of culture and social representations, regarding the disease and the systems of cures and treatments.