Capitulo 6: La indigenidad muisca contemporánea en la comunidad de Suba: motivos y motifemas de la naturaleza en canciones y poemas

Abstract

The Muisca awakening is a poetic expression with which the present members of the different current members of the different indigenous Muisca communities refer to the complex and diverse set of processes of cultural revitalization, ethnic identity and community organization. of cultural revitalization, ethnic identity and community organization. In this chapter, we propose to understand this concept as a great project of the current communities and organizations. the current Muisca communities and organizations to return to this culture and to and organizations to return this culture and its spaces of representation to the center of the Colombian ethno-political field and to interact with other indigenous communities. indigenous communities. This goal has required a great deal of creativity; Because of this, it is possible to affirm that the contemporary Muisca identity is a clear example of what Marisol de la Cadena (2006) defines as indigeneity.