Território e redes vivas de saúde numa Amazônia quilombola

Abstract

This research deals with health production in a traditional Amazonian community and its relationship with the environment, whose main objective was to analyze the living health networks produced in the community of Santa Tereza do Matupiri, located in the river Andirá, in the municipality of Barreirinha, in the region of Baixo Amazon river. It is a remnant community of quilombos recognized in 2013 from the organizational movement to claim and materialize their territorial rights. The community is home to the Quilombola River Andirá, initially composed of five communities. The method used was the cartographic approach, methodological path that allows the construction of the knowledge from the researcher's involvement and mixture with the field. In this way, it was possible to know the processes that conform the quilombola way of life of the river Andirá, allowing connections with the living networks, as well as the understanding of the notion of territoriality, social identity and health care practices, both by traditional methods and services available in the public health system