Cuentos de Madres y Abuelas: Embarazo, Parto y Postparto entre Mujeres Indígenas Ngäbes
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2025-01-20
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Solano Acuña, Ana Sofía
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Ciencia Latina Revista Científica Multidisciplinar, vol.8 no.6 8776-8811 noviembre-diciembre 2024
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La maternidad no es un “hecho natural”, sino una construcción cultural moldeada por las necesidades de un grupo social y de un momento histórico. El presente artículo tiene como objetivo describir las prácticas, creencias y cambios culturales alrededor de los momentos del embarazo, parto y postparto en la cultura indígena ngäbe. Metodológicamente el pasado es abordado mediante la revisión de fuentes históricas y antropológicas en las que se registraron uno o varios aspectos de interés; el presente por su parte se registró mediante entrevistas semiestructuradas realizadas a mujeres indígenas. Como hallazgo principal esta lectura a contrapunto de las fuentes escritas y los relatos de las mujeres señala que la atención del embarazo, parto y postparto ha pasado por un proceso de resignificación, donde algunas prácticas culturales sobreviven con mucha dificultad en un entorno comunitario ampliamente trasgredido por las políticas estatales. Sin embargo, a pesar de lo anterior es importante destacar la conciencia comunitaria de la utilidad de estas prácticas tradicionales en espacios rurales como este, así como la dimensión simbólica y colectiva que no es posible recuperar a partir de una atención estatal de la salud.
Motherhood is not a “natural fact” but a cultural construction shaped by the needs of a social group and a historical moment. This article aims to describe the practices, beliefs and cultural changes around the moments of pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum in the indigenous Ngäbe culture. Methodologically, the past is addressed through the review of historical and anthropological sources in which one or more aspects of interest were recorded; the present, for its part, was recorded through semi-structured interviews conducted with indigenous women. As a main finding, this counterpoint reading of the written sources and the women's stories indicates that pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum care has gone through a process of redefinition, where some cultural practices survive with great difficulty in a community environment widely transgressed by state policies. However, despite the above, it is important to highlight the community awareness of the usefulness of these traditional practices in rural spaces such as this, as well as the symbolic and collective dimension that cannot be recovered from state health care.
Motherhood is not a “natural fact” but a cultural construction shaped by the needs of a social group and a historical moment. This article aims to describe the practices, beliefs and cultural changes around the moments of pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum in the indigenous Ngäbe culture. Methodologically, the past is addressed through the review of historical and anthropological sources in which one or more aspects of interest were recorded; the present, for its part, was recorded through semi-structured interviews conducted with indigenous women. As a main finding, this counterpoint reading of the written sources and the women's stories indicates that pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum care has gone through a process of redefinition, where some cultural practices survive with great difficulty in a community environment widely transgressed by state policies. However, despite the above, it is important to highlight the community awareness of the usefulness of these traditional practices in rural spaces such as this, as well as the symbolic and collective dimension that cannot be recovered from state health care.
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VIOLENCIA CONTRA LAS MUJERES, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, INDÍGENAS, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, GÉNERO (SEXO), GENDER (SEX), SALUD PÚBLICA, PUBLIC HEALTH, MATERNIDAD, MATERNITY