Abstract

YONDA YULUCX, LUIS AURELIANO; DREXLER, JOSEF  and  TOCANCIPA-FALLA, JAIRO. Kwesx kiwes peykanha fxiçenxi yuwe: towards an intercultural understanding of Nasasa's struggle for Mother Earth, territory and their political-religious cosmovision. Tabula Rasa [online]. 2017, n.27, pp.429-458. ISSN 1794-2489.  https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.459.

In the last few years "La Liberación de la Madre Tierra" - "Freedom for Mother Earth" -a popular expression, coined by several indigenous communities in the department of Cauca, southwestern Colombia- has become a hot topic of debate. Some renderings done by scholars and non-scholars have lacked reflection and depth of analysis on the genealogy of this idea. This paper intends to fill this gap, by entering into an intercultural dialogue between Thê' Wala o Kiwe thê' -an ancestral wise man- from Nasa people in Caldono (Northeastern village in the department of Cauca, southwestern Colombia), a German anthropologist, and a Colombian anthropologist. This joint reflection proves to be a highly useful methodological tool to unravel the meaning of expressions we often fail to ponder upon in their formulation and development. To propose this dialogue, relying upon those authors' experience and interactions, allows us to approach the domain/space of the local and the global.

Keywords : Freedom for mother earth; intercultural dialogue; Nasa; indigenous people; South America; southwestern Colombia.

        · abstract in Spanish | Portuguese     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )