Metamorfosis trágica en la Amazonia colombiana: El cuerpo en los juegos de la guerra y la paz

Abstract

In november 2016, after more than 53 years of armed confrontation, the FARC guerrillas and the Colombian State agreed on the end of one of the most painful wars in Latin America. Among the bodies that fought in the war were indigenous bodies, among them, indigenous people from the colombian Amazon, such as some belonging to the murui-muina, nonuya, muinane and andoke. From the perspective of them, making war supposes to admit the transformation of the body, to become another, to stop being, to lose or to metamorphose. They are submited to the tyranny of predation. Taking this perspective, this article will answer, by invoking ethnographic methods, two questions: what is the social treatment given to some young indians who, by some reason, joined an armed group, guerrilla or army? And, after the peace agreement, how these young indigenous are going to be receive at their territory when they return unarmed?

Keywords

• Amazonian indigenous peoples
• tragic metamorphosis
• war
• peace
• healing