Identidades- Muiscas, Reconstrucción y Resignificación de Prácticas Culturales: Narrativas del Cabildo de Suba

Abstract

This research aims to identify the various processes of reconstruction and redefinition of the Muisca identities of the Suba council of the city of Bogotá from the biographical narratives of some of its members (communal members); The selected subjects are part of the traditional authorities of the community as well as active agents within the multiple resistances, initiatives and practices regarding the fronts of protection and claim of rights of this urban indigenous community in relation to the institutional dynamics of the State in areas local and national. In the process of searching for information on research for purposes, the concept of "identity" stands out as a singular field for the cultural study of indigenous populations, both in Colombia and in other places in Latin America; however, the very notion of "indigenous ” (born in the territory) is questionable as this categorization became a general pattern for indigenous communities in Latin America, an example of this are the indigenous communities located in cities, for the purposes of this research the Muiscas of Suba de la city of Bogotá precede the city, that is, they originate from the territory, or as they assume "raizales" are roots of the land in which they lived ancestrally), in this way it is necessary to distinguish between being raizal and being indigenous, for Therefore, the concept that is proposed is that of identities, worked among many others by Stuart Hall and Eduardo Restrepo, since the plurality and the difference of the community members in the face of the social dynamics of the city are the basis of the projection of critical communities. , reflexive and introspective in cultural and ontological terms, which allows us to contemplate identities in temporary notions: what we were, what we are and what we will be. Likewise, the present investigation is exposed under basic methodological axes; participant observation as a technique, biographical narratives as a strategy and hermeneutics as an interpretation process, likewise a triangulation was carried out between narratives and all the records obtained from the application of the research instrument during the field work, the above has a study process in hermeneutical terms. Among the results, the reconstruction and redefinition of the Muisca de Suba community in the city of Bogotá stands out from 4 foundations: identity. The individual and community objectives that the subjects have are linked by participation and strong collaboration in the needs of the Muiscas of Suba from the spaces generated both by the council and outside of it, that is, the council is an end and not a means for the reconstruction and redefinition of the community. Ethnicity. The conception of assuming themselves more than indigenous as "raizales" that is, as the root of the territory, since they have never left the territory despite the vicissitudes of history so that the city came to them "they were invaded" to that extent there is an important redefinition of Muisca identities in the current town of Suba in the city of Bogotá. Territory. It is necessary to emphasize the fact of the convergence of the spaces mentioned by the interviewees as well as their meaning and place within the Muisca cosmogony and culture within these places or spatialities are the ecosystems and bodies of water found in the territory, the above means the transcendence of the territory in the consolidation and strengthening of the Muisca identities of the indigenous people of Suba in accordance with the community initiatives of the council in political, cultural, educational, territorial and spiritual terms. Ideology and memory. The community members have vehemently criticized the historical violation of territorial, cultural, and social rights in the Suba Muisca community, as well as the effects on representative ecosystems of the community, such as wetlands, bodies of water, and places of payment for which resistance and community struggle is the way to strengthen the community being the identities the fundamental pillar.