Iztapalapa (Dec 2018)
Indigenous Integral Territory, an Awajún Proposal
Abstract
The Awajún indigenous people belong to the jíbara linguistic family and are located in the north of Peru. For the Awajun, land does not only provide material and individual subsistence; on the contrary, they understand it in a wholesome way, incorporating their material and symbolic reproduction as a collective. The objective of this article is to propose and debate concepts of territory and to compare them with the conceptualization and proposal by the Awajun people, an Integral Indigenous Territory. Based on the research carried out, the Awajún Integral Territory will encompass the territorial totality that the Awajún people traditionally occupied, uniting the indigenous ethnic continuity Awajún today separated by fictitious borders. This means, it will take a historical past, which has varied mainly by pressure from external agents, which is reevaluated and reinterpreted to the reality and current context.
