Nasa Phtamnxûu

Nasa indigenous-nation casorio

Authors

  • Esteban Mateo Leguizamón Russi Aica Colectivo
  • Alejandra Muñóz Ruiz Aica Colectivo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29340/en.v2n3.57

Keywords:

Casorio (symbolic marriage), indigenous family unity, rituals, customs

Abstract

The document’s object is to make plain the historical framework in which, for one, the Aica Colectivo’s audiovisual production for preserving Casorio Indígena indigenous wedding customs developed, at the same time it traces the path of knowledge-consolidation that emerged from indigenous Nasa culture, in an exercise that allows us to hem in cultural distances that currently can be found between Colombia’s other cultures. The work presents an outline-story of the indigenous Nasa Paez nation—a people from an ancient homeland in Tierradentro, Cauca-Colombia, whose native language is Nasaywe. It is community of ongoing resistance that fights to forge its own history by following its ancestors’ footsteps.

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Author Biographies

  • Esteban Mateo Leguizamón Russi, Aica Colectivo

    Mateo Leguizamón Colombian photographer and documentary filmmaker. Partner and founder of Aica Colectivo, an independent organization focused on the creation of research and visual and audiovisual content as a method of self-education, memory creation and reflection. He has directed several national and international award-winning documentary projects with indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in Colombia. Projects directed: -Kiwe Samai-Yo me llamo Tierra. Winning photodocumentary in the call "Memorias del Futuro" of the Programa Distrital de las Artes de Bogotá-Colombia (2013). -Nasa Phtmnxuu-Nasa indigenous house. Documentary project that works on the recovery of the uses and customs of the Nasa community of the Tumbichucue reservation in Tierradentro-Colombia (2013). Selected to participate in different film festivals and community shows at national and international level. -Al son de la migra. Experimental documentary project that tells the story of young immigrants from the Colombian Pacific, in which beyond making visible their condition as migrants, we wanted to emphasize the great contribution that their traditional practices represent for the intercultural strengthening of the city of Bogota (2013). -Dos temitas-Two Themes. Documentary project that tells the story of Adriana, a woman artist, immigrant and fighter who symbolizes, if you will, the entire community of street and independent workers who are daily persecuted by codes and state laws that prohibit their free right to work in public spaces in large cities. In a social context of unemployment and lack of life opportunities, traditional Colombian music has provided her with the precise formula to move forward her life and that of her son, motivating her to become the great harpist of the means of mass transportation: Transmilenio (2013). -Saakhelu Kiwe Kame-Offering to Mother Earth. Documentary project focused on the ritual of the offering to nature of the Nasa indigenous community in post-conflict territory. Winner as best documentary of the festival Arica Nativa, La Araucanía, FICWALLMAPU (Chile) and Montes de María (Colombia).

  • Alejandra Muñóz Ruiz, Aica Colectivo

    Alejandra Muñoz Ruiz Colombian photographer and documentary filmmaker. Partner and founder of Aica Colectivo, an independent organization focused on the creation of research and visual and audiovisual content as a method of self-education, creation of memory and reflection. They have directed several national and international award-winning documentary projects with indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in Colombia. Projects directed: -Kiwe Samai-Yo me llamo Tierra. Winning photodocumentary in the call "Memorias del Futuro" of the Programa Distrital de las Artes de Bogotá-Colombia (2013). -Nasa Phtmnxuu-Nasa indigenous house. Documentary project that works on the recovery of the uses and customs of the Nasa community of the Tumbichucue reservation in Tierradentro-Colombia (2013). Selected to participate in different film festivals and community shows at national and international level. -Al son de la migra. Experimental documentary project that tells the story of young immigrants from the Colombian Pacific, in which beyond making visible their condition as migrants, we wanted to emphasize the great contribution that their traditional practices represent for the intercultural strengthening of the city of Bogota (2013). -Dos temitas-Two Themes. Documentary project that tells the story of Adriana, a woman artist, immigrant and fighter who symbolizes, if you will, the entire community of street and independent workers who are daily persecuted by codes and state laws that prohibit their free right to work in public spaces in large cities. In a social context of unemployment and lack of life opportunities, traditional Colombian music has provided her with the precise formula to move forward her life and that of her son, motivating her to become the great harpist of the means of mass transportation: Transmilenio (2013). -Saakhelu Kiwe Kame-Offering to Mother Earth. Documentary project focused on the ritual of the offering to nature of the Nasa indigenous community in post-conflict territory. Winner as best documentary of the festival Arica Nativa, La Araucanía, FICWALLMAPU (Chile) and Montes de María (Colombia).

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Resistir la deshumanización

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Published

2019-03-21

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Vol. 2 No. 3 (2019): Resisting dehumanization. Mexico’s civil society in light of disappearances, freedom of expression under duress and forced displacement

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Nasa Phtamnxûu: Nasa indigenous-nation casorio. (2019). Encartes, 2(3), 197-213. https://doi.org/10.29340/en.v2n3.57