Eficácia simbólica e sentido de cura: um tema entre o ensino de química e os saberes originários

Abstract

In this work we are dedicated to the analysis of works on the culture, rituals and beliefs of the indigenous peoples of Brazil and the way they express, absorb and transmit knowledge. Our research promotes theoretical and bibliographic analysis based on the work of the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss in his book Antropologia Estrutural, where the author writes about his immersion, in an ethnographic way, in an indigenous system in the central region of Brazil in 1938. to focus on indigenous culture, we consider observations of concepts of the culture of the indigenous peoples presented by the indigenous peoples themselves. In our theoretical framework, we verify how Lévi-Strauss uses indigenous culture in ethnological analyzes specifically of magic-religious rituals, thus anchoring his concept of Symbolic Efficacy and, in a material way, we assume Ayahuasca as a physical object of analysis, as a cultural product, from the theoretical ground offered by the anthropologist. Linking this theoretical framework to the context of education, we intend to contribute to the training of chemistry teachers capable of articulating non-traditional approaches and a cultural approach in the school environment and specifically we conceive an interactive ebook as a form of product that presents itself as a Fundamental Resource and Innovative Instructional designed for non-indigenous teachers. In general, we believe and hope that our text and product can provoke, in those who experience it, the interest of becoming, if they want, agents of indigenous cultural preservation.