Narrativas de la comunidad Mhuysqa de Sesquilé frente a su cultura política

Abstract

The next investigation had an objective of understanding a social and critical perspective of the Mhuysqua narrative in the Sesquilé community around their own politic culture, including the understanding of those beliefs, values, representations, and political practices. Consequently, this work had been thought in the qualitative paradigm of the performative ethnographic methodology—in which the researchers are making a stabilized representation of the communicative acts that had been working during this investigation. Therefore, the investigation has five phases, each phase for each meeting with the community leader. The investigation takes information by the process of active observation and field diaries. We propose categorical analysis for the interpretation of topics: political participation, political organization, cosmovision, and cultural traditions. Based on these ideas, we recognize that the narratives from the participants are connected, because they are symbolic constructions that configurate their social relationships, just like their own projections, objective, and notions of leadership. These narratives are helping to increase self-definition; create political actions; and get a historical, social, and cultural sense of their own experiences. Understanding this information also means understanding their worldview, ethnic identity, and historic memory as additional elements to their political culture, as well as making a framework for easier social cohesion and sense of belonging. This discovery creates spaces for thinking and debate in the main idea of critical engagement that psychology has on the emancipation process of the Colombian ethnic communities.