O SABER DAS PARTEIRAS: UMA ARQUEOLOGIA NO ALTO PURUS

Abstract

This doctoral thesis entitled "Knowledge of midwives: an archeology in the Alto Purus" is the result of a survey undertaken by the Research Field: Education, Society and the Graduate Program in Culture Education at the Catholic University of Goiás, PPGEPUC - GO. This research sought to investigate what knowledge of midwives of Alto Purus, in the municipality of Santa Rosa do Purus-AC, and the conditions of possibility of this knowledge. This is a theoretical nature of work mixed with the analysis of official and unofficial documents. Therefore, discussed the know from a path of reading between history and philosophy, aiming to understand the influences of French epistemology in Archaeology of Knowledge (its displacement) of Michel Foucault. It was used by public health agencies and education documents and oral reports of (the) river (the) from the Alto Purus region. He studied the issue of midwives with brief forays into the history of European and Brazilian midwives, to then make use of images (both iconographic and symbolic) of altopuruenses midwives. And when analyzing the conditions of possibility of knowledge of midwives in Alto Purus, if contacted that although being the knowledge of midwives altopuruenses something predominantly oral and empirical, mixed with extracts of modern medicine, it is an event of the knowledge order which does not fit the order of the scientific view, or the epistemological, and that, therefore, the concept of knowledge of midwives must be invented, if you like, reinvented.