El que quiera creer que crea, memoria e identidad en el kilombo razana “sabedores ancestrales” en la localidad de la candelaria.

Abstract

This research is aimed at showing how the traditions of the Afro-descendant population present in the town of La Candelaria in the city of Bogotá have served to keep together a community that has undergone different migration processes. Such processes reflect not only the fact of the territorial detachment that the population has had to experience, but also the fact of belonging to an identity that is invisible to the city they arrive at. For this reason, the work is framed in a sociology of memory, which seeks to account for the ways in which elements of solidarity and cultural tradition are sustained, since these function as identification systems that allow the migrant population to generate sociocultural practices. dissidents in the spaces where they arrive, helping to sustain or preserve the meaning of the actions of the migrant community. In other words, the sociological perspective of memory allows us to recognize both the presence of a system of thought that has impeded the integral development of the identity of Afro-Colombian communities and the actions of resistance that have kept alive the traditional ancestral traditions given through orality. , remembering that memory is the communication that one has of the past with the present and of this dialogue with the way in which the future is thought.