Entre Plantas y Relatos: El Poder del Territorio de la Gente Magüta

Abstract

This publication is the result of a research that has had four phases between 2015 and 2022. It integrates the knowledge of the intergenerational group Ngee Iya Iya, established in the resguardo of San Sebastian de los Lagos, near Leticia, Amazonas. In all its phases, we have relied on the Participatory Action Research lAP methodology, which recognizes the local actors as the authentic researchers of the project, who have proposed activities, guiding the research and acting around their own interests. It is a communicative proposal that takes into account the oral transmission, accompanied by the languages known and used by the new generations, through which we propose the recovery and preservation of the culture of the Magüta people (traditional name of the Tikuna indigenous people, who live in the Amazon region of Brazil, Colombia and Peru).