La artesanía indígena en la composición de mundos. Hacia una exploración etnolingüística

Abstract

Handicra making is a complex phenomenon which involves socio-cultural, historical, productive, technological and artistic dimensions, but also environmental and ethnolinguistics variables. From an ethnographic perspective, the paper exposes the way in which traditional handicra comprises the biological and environmental diversity with the sociocultural one. It exemplifies how the indigenous handicra making moves vital frameworks (native epistemologies and ontologies) in which nature and culture fuse in special ways. It explores the hypothesis that the native expressions in indigenous language, through different resources, allow us to observe the continuity of human life. is continuity involves animals, plants and other nonhuman beings that intervene within artisan work in the different “worlds” in which indigenous peoples in our country live and work. e research is based on field work, interviews and analysis of unpublished and published documentary sources.