Antropologia, etnografia e narrativa: Caminhos que se cruzam na compreensão do processo saúde-doença

Abstract

The article discusses anthropology, ethnographic method, and narrative as possible ways of coming to know subjects' experiences and the feelings they attribute to them. From an anthropological perspective, the socio cultural universe is taken as a point of reference in understanding the meaning of the processes of health and sickness, using a dense ethnographic description from an inter pretivist analytical approach. In this context, narratives afford possible paths to understanding how subjective human experiences are shared and how behavior is organized, with a special focus on meaning, the process by which stories are produced, relations between narrator and other subjects, processes of knowledge, and the manifold ways in which experience can be captured.