Abstract
This paper discusses how the struggle of the Mbya Guarani people can be comprehended as a necessary dimension for the study of health care promotion. Struggle that happens in a situation manifested by the communities that includes the experience of a series of conflicts denounced as Brazilian State disrespect to their constitutional rights. We developed a dialogical analysis of discourses uttered by Mbya Guarani leaders, published by indigenous associations and in the documentary “Teko Rexaĩ: Saúde Guarani Mbyá”. We discussed the tensions between the Guarani conception of Teko Porã and what is proposed by the Brazilian Subsystem of Indigenous Health Attention. We argue that the conceptions of health and care, from the framework of Semiotic-Cultural Constructivism in psychology and its interfaces with the ethical reflection, should consider the indigenous ethos. It allow us to rethink about the role other the healthcare agents in relation to the issues reported by the indigenous leaders.
Keywords:
struggle; Mbya Guarani; health; ethos; care