Leisure dispositives and sociability in the Nasa Indigenous community in Colombia. Social and cultural resistance

Abstract

Colombian native communities are crossing a strong process of elimination, which is not recent; it started a long time ago since colonial Spanish arriving in the XVI century.  Nowadays these people are still suffering pillaging and penetration in their territories, to take advantage of their natural resources and their millenary knowledge.  This penetration strategy has promoted the colonial differences, a binary perspective which classifies human beings groups into superior and inferior, developed and under developed, polite and impolite, useful and useless.  From this “classificatory machine” other ways of thinking, feeling, imagining, relating with nature, relating with others, leisure and free time, have been subalternized.  This behavior has moved us away from a coexistence based on intercultural relations and acceptance of the different as existential condition.