On the Encounter of Scientific Literature with Afro-Brazilian Ancestral Pharmacopeias

Autor/inn/en	do Amparo, Pedro Vinícius Castro Magalhães; Pinheiro, Bárbara Carine Soares
Titel	On the Encounter of Scientific Literature with Afro-Brazilian Ancestral Pharmacopeias
Quelle	In: Cultural Studies of Science Education, 17 (2022) 3, S.795-814 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (do Amparo, Pedro Vinícius Castro Magalhães)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1871-1502
DOI	10.1007/s11422-021-10061-9
Schlagwörter	Plants (Botany); Medicine; African Culture; Cultural Influences; Scientific Research; Ethics; Indigenous Knowledge; Indigenous Populations; Scientists + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pflanze; Medizin; Africa; Culture; Afrika; Kultur; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Ethik; Sinti und Roma; Scientist; Wissenschaftler
Abstract	This research envisioned as its main objective the comprehension of the process of knowledge production concerning the Afro-Brazilian boldo ("Plectranthus barbatus Andrews"), with the contributions from both scientists and the Afro-Brazilian people. As specific objectives, we attempted to reconstruct the research pathways traveled by medicinal plant scientists and by the Afro-Brazilian people and to evaluate the conduct of scientists along this process. The method exploited in this investigation consisted of a systematic literature review followed by content analysis from a bardanian perspective. Within the framework of this investigation (decoloniality of knowledge), the theories of epistemicide, epistemic pillage, and ethics of Ubuntu comprise the main theoretical constructs employed. During content analysis, we formulated a category discussing how the ancestral wisdom was presented in the papers investigated herein. The process of knowledge production always occurs in collaboration with other scientists, which, according to the theory of Ubuntu, can be considered ethical. We analyzed how the ancestral knowledge is presented in the research papers related to boldo in order to understand both its influence on the body of research examined and the possible processes of epistemic injustice. It is possible that, in the process of knowledge production depicted herein, Afro-Brazilian people might have had their epistemes pillaged, which appears to be unethical under the perspective of Ubuntu theory, and this motivated, in this work, the proposal of an ethically oriented process of knowledge production. This research first establishes the approaches between ethical and epistemological aspects with respect to processes of knowledge production, from a decolonial perspective, and reveals the nuances of those processes, the epistemic injustices that have occurred, and the ethical problems due to these injustices. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01