Interculturality from the cosmovision of the Quijos nation

Abstract

The article tries to provide an understanding of the intercultural processes of the Quijos nationality from the point of view of the social actors themselves. This analysis seeks to understand the intercultural conformation of the Quijos nation from a worldview that provides elements to speak of an Amazonian philosophy that does not disassociate the relationship between nature and culture. It starts from the bibliographic analysis and the recovery of historicity, that is, the history told from below, from those who live it, because one is the history told by the “winners” and the other by he “defeated”. As we delve into the cultural features of the Quijos, we will take its territorial delimitation as a starting point and then we will remember how it was influenced by other human groups with different interests. It must be considered that this work aims to analyze the sociocultural processes of the Quijos nation. In methodological terms, the starting point are the life stories, historicity and the practices of ceremonies and rituals that give way to the cosmos and self-determination are recovered. In conclusion, a contribution is generated to be able to speak of an Amazonian philosophy, revealing the socio-historical processes of exploitation of the territory, as well as the cultural imposition on human groups that inhabit the Amazon.