Abstract

ROSAS RIANO, Diana. The Force of Manioc of Yukuna-Matapí Women: a Mediating Power between Economic Systems in Western Colombian Amazonia. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2023, vol.59, n.3, pp.44-69.  Epub Sep 01, 2023. ISSN 0486-6525.  https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472x.2418.

The ritual process of menarche in Yucuna and Matapí women is a bodily knowledge that is embodied as the strength of the yucca, materialized in an effective economic productivity and an efficient reproductive capacity. From a multi-situated ethno­graphic approach, I reconstruct the mobility trajectories of four women in the rural/urban interface, between the Mirití river, Leticia and Bogotá, to highlight the way in which the strength of the yucca allows them to interact, confront and resolve the subjections derived from the intersection between the gift economy system, which sustains the social organization of maloca and the neoliberal economic system. The analysis of these four bodily and narrative experiences at the crossroads between these economic regimes structures this article.

Keywords : amazonian ethnology; menarchy; indigenous women; productivity; gift economy; capitalism.

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