Putting the Discourse Together from the Nasa Cosmovision in the Mosoco Territory, Páez-Cauca

Abstract

We'wenxi's umna Kwe'sx pudna Museukwe Kiwete aims to approach the ancestral knowledge of the Nasa indigenous community, since the cultural practices that are woven in the territory have been weakened over time, because the transmission of knowledge from generation to generation nowadays experiences social, economic, cultural and political gaps. The main objective aimed to create a didactic strategy to strengthen the ancestral memory and the cosmovision of the Nasa territory, through the collection of data on the experiences, knowledge and customs of the community of the Mosoco indigenous reservation in the municipality of Paez (Belalcazar). The theoretical approach focuses on intercultural education as the perspective that highlights cultural identity as a collective fabric, which fosters a new mode of social and educational relationship, where an approach to ethnographic research that seeks the recognition of diverse knowledge and practices from the ethnic and ancestral point of view is conducted. To achieve this, it was used the instruments such as participant observation, the interview and the minga of thought as a pedagogical tool that collects and systematizes millenarian knowledge. As a result of the study, voices of the community regarding ancestral practices, cosmogonic principles, and the cosmovision of the Nasa indigenous people were systematized through dialogue of knowledge, participant observation of Mingas de pensamiento held through tulpas, and analysis of texts, articles, and books documenting cultural memory.