TAILIEUCHUNG - Báo cáo y học: "Offensive’ snakes: cultural beliefs and practices related to snakebites in a Brazilian rural settlement"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: ’Offensive’ snakes: cultural beliefs and practices related to snakebites in a Brazilian rural settlement. | Fita et al. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2010 6 13 http content 6 1 13 JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY AND ETHNOMEDICINE RESEARCH Open Access Offensive snakes cultural beliefs and practices related to snakebites in a Brazilian rural settlement Dídac S Fita1 Eraldo M Costa Neto2 Alexandre Schiavetti3 Abstract This paper records the meaning of the term offense and the folk knowledge related to local beliefs and practices of folk medicine that prevent and treat snake bites as well as the implications for the conservation of snakes in the county of Pedra Branca Bahia State Brazil. The data was recorded from September to November 2006 by means of open-ended interviews performed with 74 individuals of both genders whose ages ranged from 4 to 89 years old. The results show that the local terms biting stinging and pricking are synonymous and used as equivalent to offending. All these terms mean to attack. A total of 23 types of snakes were recorded based on their local names. Four of them are Viperidae which were considered the most dangerous to humans besides causing more aversion and fear in the population. In general local people have strong negative behavior towards snakes killing them whenever possible. Until the antivenom was present and available the locals used only charms prayers and homemade remedies to treat or protect themselves and others from snake bites. Nowadays people do not pay attention to these things because basically the antivenom is now easily obtained at regional hospitals. It is understood that the ethnozoological knowledge customs and popular practices of the Pedra Branca inhabitants result in a valuable cultural resource which should be considered in every discussion regarding public health sanitation and practices of traditional medicine as well as in faunistic studies and conservation strategies for local biological diversity. Introduction Snakes are among the animals that have most influenced the human psyche since .

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