Memorias de un Buen Vivir: Construyendo un Nosotros a Partir de las Prácticas de Cuidado

Abstract

The main objective developed in this research was: understand the way of care practices that enable the construction of memory as a constituent part of cultural identity and vivir bien in narrative terms in the Arhuaca indigenous community, and this is how it is possible to find an authentic space that allows dialogue with ancestry from the social complexity, community psychology and a perspective that includes new visions concerning the south, therefore we use a southern epistemologies. Therefore, a qualitative methodology is used that allows flexibility in the development of the processes studied, also, an ethnographic method was used which makes it possible to understand social systems through interpretations of cultural meanings and from the perspective of the participants, for that reason the circle of the word and the semi-structured interview were used as techniques. The analysis of the results was developed through a categorical analysis, which allows us to understand, describe and expand the narratives of the community. Thus, it is possible to establish scenes that allow us to understand the indigenous worldview of the Arhuaca community with respect to the care and processes related to memory, cultural identity and vivir bien, establishing that these categories relate to each other and that their purpose is the search for balance and harmony in relation with the nature and life always from respect to the other.