Corrêa, Ester Paixão (org.)Silva, Mercês de Fátima dos Santos (org.)Sá, Fernanda Diniz de (org.)2025-07-032025-07-032025-05-01CORRÊA, Ester Paixão; SILVA, Mercês de Fátima dos Santos; SÁ, Fernanda Diniz de (orgs.). Mulheres que curam do Rio Grande do Norte. Santa Cruz, RN: Edição das Autoras, 2025.978-65-01-45193-0https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/64110This book offers a sensitive and respectful exploration of the ancestral knowledge of care and healing produced and transmitted by women in the countryside of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Through an ethnographic approach, the work maps plural practices rooted in local cosmologies and ecologies, revealing the central role of women in shaping integrative and community-based health care. Rural, urban, quilombola, and Afro-Brazilian religious women share their knowledge of using plants, roots, bark, and other elements of the regional biome to prepare natural remedies, as well as spiritual healing practices. We aim to highlight the resilience and strength of these female-led practices and ways of knowing, which are often rendered invisible by hegemonic biomedical models of health care. Drawing on interviews, photographs, and artistic records collected during workshops and field experiences, the book invites readers to value life practices that care for both the body and the land in an integrative manner.pt-BRSaúdepromoção da saúdeAncestralidadeMulheres - Aspectos sociaisPlantas medicinaisErvas - Uso terapêuticoEtnografiaEstudos interculturaisMedicina natural - Poder de curaAntropologia socialAncestral knowledgeHealthHealth promotionWomen – Social aspectsIntercultural studiesMedicinal plantsEthnographyHerbs – Therapeutic useNatural medicine – Healing powerSocial anthropologyMulheres que curam do Rio Grande do Nortebook