Primer y Último Aliento: Saberes de Vínculo en torno al Nacimiento y la Muerte desde la Partería Mhuysqa

Abstract

This is a research proposal that aims to interpret the knowledge of the connection around birth and death processes from indigenous midwifery with experts from the Mhuysqa community of Suba, to accompany ancestral perspectives that allow us to re-understand suffering. To this end, utilizes understandings from critical social epistemology with a decolonial approach, secondorder cybernetics and the paradigm of transpersonal psychology, which converge to build new realities and understandings about ancestral knowledge. In this way, this investigative process is carried out hand in hand with the Mhuysqa indigenous community of Suba with three participants, experts, ancestral doctors and an indigenous midwife; three academics and researchers with approaches to ancestral knowledge and a nurse representative of the world of traditional health sciences serves as. The research uses the qualitative method, with a methodology that uses ethnography with a narrative approach. The categories of analysis are taken as: the connection, the narrative and the suffering, interpreted through instruments such as field diaries, audio and video records, as well as participant observation strategies, word circles, experiential interpretation and semistructured interviews. In the process of constructing results, discourse analysis was used with the proposal that narrative is everything. The results confirm that the understanding of the connection around the processes of birth and death are the results of a journey, in which listening, dialogue and the encounter between perspectives that complement each other are sought, the connection with birth is understood. and death from the transcendence and union of two moments that are configured in a single breath.