Subsídios para a compreensão da história da Associação dos Médicos Tradicionais de Moçambique (AMETRAMO) 1975-2004

Abstract

AMETRAMO is the first association of traditional doctors in Mozambique, founded in September 1990, with the aim of verifying the “scientific” capacity of its future members, since, as stated in the statutes of this association, it is necessary to find criteria that make it possible to recognize true doctors traditional. AMETRAMO is therefore a meeting of centrifugal wills, simultaneously an attempt at control by the State, and a space of plural claim of traditional doctors, for the Tinyanga, the Association is essential as a space for national legitimacy, as they feel the constant risk present in your area of ​​professional activity. Traditional Medicine is the sum of knowledge, skills and practices based on in the theories, beliefs and experiences native to different cultures, whether explicable or not, used in the maintenance of health, prevention, diagnosis or treatment of diseases physical and mental. This work focuses on presenting the results of a research on subsidies for understanding the history of the association of Traditional doctors of Mozambique, 1975 to 2004. After independence, the Mozambique Liberation Front invested efforts in affirmation of a decolonized, popular, democratic and socialist government. Your model of development based on economics was linked to the construction of a new society and nation, aiming to integrate the country into contemporary times, modernize its institutions and strengthen the power of the State. This required profound changes in the ways of organization, in people's habits and ways of thinking. In Frelimo's view, some practices, modes of social and political organization inherent to local cultures were considered superstitious, an obstacle to development, to socialism. Based on this vision, the government launched a campaign to combat and prohibition of some cultural practices and knowledge, including those exercised by traditional doctors, even imposing imprisonment and exile on them, but in return, showed interest in the knowledge they had about plants. (TRADUÇAO NOSSA)