Pregnancy and Birth in Urban Context

Shipibo-Konibo Women of Cashahuacra

Abstract

The article focuses on the trajectories of care and attention during Pregnancy, Childbirth and Post-Partum that the Shipibo-konibo women of the self-proclaimed Shipibo Community of Cashahuacra go through. This community was formed almost fifteen years ago when a group of families from this amazonian indigenous people from Ucayali settled in the Cashahuacra ravine (Santa Eulalia District, Huarochirí province). More than detailing the practices and knowledge of these trajectories, I emphasize how this social space under construction, which is this indigenous community located in a marginal urban area, characterized by poverty and constant mobility, leaves its mark on the formation of these trajectories in which the knowledge and practices of the Shipibo culture are current but without rejecting those coming from institutional medicine against which there is a critical and pragmatic view in accordance with what it means for a shipibo-konibo woman to be a mother in the city.