Prácticas e identidades indígenas en contexto de ciudad: el caso de la comunidad indígena nasa del Cauca, en Bogotá- Colombia

Abstract

The aim of this study is to provide the implications of the visible displacement phenomenon in the consolidation of the practices and identities of the Nasa indigenous Colombian community in the city context. It is intended to state and expose the characterization of the indigenous individuals who move from inhabiting rural spaces to inhabit the city of Bogotá in order to provide an approximation of the cultural, economic, social and identity transformations of the indigenous population within the city framework. Understanding the city as a socially constructed space, which means, a field of struggle, where the practices of the indigenous communities debate the possibility of inhabiting the space. Therefore, the constitution of the identity is problematized from the diverse and multiple views that the context demands for those indigenous communities that inhabit today the urban space.