Abstract

BRAVO OSORIO, Leidy Marcela. Knowing How to Live There as a Principle of the Inga Life. Folios [online]. 2021, n.53, pp.199-214.  Epub Nov 20, 2021. ISSN 0123-4870.  https://doi.org/10.17227/folios.53-10183.

This research article presents the characterization of the principle "knowing how to live there", from the perspective of the Inga indigenous people of the Baja Bota Caucana (Colombia) and its relationship with the possibilities of caring for the territory, in dialogue with Andean philosophical perspectives and with the paradigm of the care of life. The methodological proposal in this research initiative is based on the experience of living with the Inga, understood as the possibility of developing knowledge that contributes to the readings of reality from social studies. The methodology proposed follows a qualitative and critical approach, which includes life experiences, dialogues, audiovisual records and the systematization and analysis of information. The main finding is the "knowing how to live there" as a principle of Inga life, which does not refer only to human survival forms, but fundamentally to understand that we are part of something bigger, as complex in its existence as ourselves: the territory. It is full of other ways of knowing how to live, with which we must relate and seek complementarity, reciprocity, and harmony. It settles as an alternative of life and resistance to capitalist forms that undermine principles of harmonization of life, solidarity, and equality.

Keywords : Inga people; knowing how to live there; territory; knowledge.

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