Significados y representaciones de la minga para el pueblo indígena Pastos de Colombia

Abstract

This paper exposes the literature review and the results of the ethnographic fieldwork with the Pastos people, both of them about a cultural practice called minga. It was inquired what others meanings of the Pastos people daily life are linked with the minga. The stories collected states that the practice of the minga among Pastos people undermines the space and the time in which literature locates the minga. The conclusion is that the minga is not only a shape of community labor or a strategy to social mobilization and political action, but a tool that preserves the historical memory through which there is a renewal of the intersubjectivities links of those practices it.