01748nas a2200265   4500000000100000008004100001260001600042653001500058653001500073653001400088653002700102653001800129653001700147653002100164100002300185700002500208700001200233700001400245700001500259245009300274300001100367490000800378520108200386022001401468       2023                            d  bElsevier BV10atoxicology10aSnakebites10aAntivenom10aIndigenous populations10aPublic Health10aAnthropology10aInterculturality1 aSeabra de Farias A1 aSaturnino Cristino J1 aMurta F1 aSachett J1 aMonteiro W00aSnakebites from the standpoint of an indigenous anthropologist from the Brazilian Amazon  a1072890 v2343 a<p>Conflicting attempts between indigenous caregivers trying to exercise their healing practices in hospitals have been recorded in the Brazilian&nbsp;Amazon. In this work, we present an interview with the Baniwa indigenous anthropologist Francy Baniwa. In an external and colonial interpretation, it was previously stated that indigenous people attribute the origin of&nbsp;snakebites&nbsp;as supernatural and that indigenous medicine, when it saves a patient from complications and death, has symbolic efficacy. In this interview, we observed that this form of interpretation is asymmetric because, for indigenous people, their understanding of nature is broader than ours, with more possibilities of ways of existence, including non-human entities as well or ill-intentioned as humans. The interaction of humans with these identities produces a form of existence with its own clinical reality, which is full of symbolism. Effective communication between health agents and indigenous patients and caregivers must undergo this exercise of otherness and interculturality.</p>
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