Health practices with hospitalized Yanomami children: a reflection based on the concept of territory

Abstract

This study proposes to discuss and develop a reflection on healthcare practices directed at hospitalized Yanomami children, taking the concept of territory as an analytical axis, without, however, configuring itself as an anthropological study. We understand territory as something living and pulsating, not solely restricted to the demarcated geographical space where sovereignty is exercised and bodies are controlled; which we sometimes find in the hospital territory. Some indigenous conceptions of territory are presented in this text, with the perspective of provoking others to reflect on territory as a movement constituted through the dawn of multiple expressiveness. Thus, meditating in light of these understandings implies thinking about a more integrative, horizontal, constructive, and less restrictive hospital territory. A territory that questions, above all, any exercise of autocratic sovereignty in the healthcare process, especially with hospitalized Yanomami children.