Mulheres indígenas na cidade: cultura, saúde e trabalho (Manaus, 1995-2014)

Abstract

This research sought to revalue the experiences of social participation of indigenous women, from 1995 to 2014, around the creation of Sateré-Mawé Indigenous Women's Association, as a proper space of resistance and organization for the conquest of their rights to culture, health and work in the city of Manaus. From written documents, photographic records, among others, studied the file of that Association, are highlighted in this study work processes and social mobilization towards health movements with own meanings engendered in the urban fabric by the transforming action of indigenous of Sateré-Mawé Indigenous Women's. Thus, ways of life advocated by the Association, such as handicrafts and fields of joint efforts against hunger, appear in this study as a joint field and social participation experiences of indigenous women in the city of Manaus