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HiSTOReLo. Revista de Historia Regional y Local

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Abstract

ARCIA-GRAJALES, John H.. Situated thought in "Recovering the Land to Recover Everything" in the Native Village Misak (Cauca), Colombia. Historelo.rev.hist.reg.local [online]. 2021, vol.13, n.26, pp.14-36.  Epub Dec 10, 2020. ISSN 2145-132X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/historelo.v13n26.83595.

The situated thought emerges in the defense and fight for the territory; occurs in communalities and in relations with other worldviews. To understand this thought, collaborative research with the Misak people from three dimensions: Archaeological, of theoretical, historical review and of people's stories; look at the relations between knowledge/power. Genealogical, follows the trail to the discontinuities in the life practices. And Strategic, observe the forms of spiritual government and the principles of re-existence. The investigation finds that the written word, in the Spanish language, is a device led by the Catholic Church to evangelize, erase oral memory, the native language and own thought, to impose docile attitudes and take away their territories from the people. In the "spiritual policy" there is an Authority that allows to orient the time-space, the dream, the vision and the practices that occur around the stove to conserve and give survival to the communal relations between the beings of nature, people and the territory. Although the dead's world is not addressed in this study, it is relevant to understanding spiritual politics in situated thought.

Keywords : situated thought; spiritual politics; native language; oral memory; communality.

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