Daily Practices of Midwives and ‘Experientes’ of Tocantins

Through the oral reporting of memories of the descendants of old “quilombadas”, the present article analyzes the daily practices of midwives, healers and their descendants in the region of Tocantins, in Pará - north of the Amazon. Beside the attendance to childbirth, those women carried out a ser...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Benedita Celeste de Moraes Pinto
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2002-01-01
Series:Revista Estudos Feministas
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/9612