Cultural Meanings Construction from the Tissues made by Nasa Women from Tierradentro as a Communication Strategy for Survival

Abstract

This article highlights the role of Nasa women from Tierradentro, Cauca, in the process of ancestral communication and in the construction of cultural meanings, through the tissues they make and that have been a communication strategy for the survival of the peoples and the territory. The sense of the fabric is exposed as an essential practice where symbols and signs loaded with meanings are represented, constructed through community interaction, historical facts, and the recommendations of knowledgeable persons, the orientations and the projection of the people. In the same way, the fabric in the Nasayuwe language “umna” is expressed as the ability to connect the three dimensions, the spiritual, the body and the territory between which it interacts daily and spirals in the direction of the moon and the sun, in being-being, going, arriving and returning with criteria of dignity and identity. Finally, the importance of collective learning is expressed as the strategy that the peoples maintain and that is called community pedagogies from which the use and appreciation of tissues has been maintained over time and in the space for the survival of our peoples.