Unreal borders, grandparents and common territories. The Yasuní Region territory of inter-dependence and interrelation of Waorani and family groups in isolation

Abstract

The public policies of the states affect the dynamics of indigenous peoples and their territories in the Amazon, many of which give rise to conflicts due to the reduced vision and considerations around cultural diversity, which refer to discourses and policies unicultural. In the Ecuadorian Amazon, the Waorani people of recent contact, and family groups in isolation, maintain and reproduce their own cultural forms of social order and territoriality, which confront with the limits imposed by the State, by the different conceptions of territorial control and management. The Yasuní Region, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, is the space where Waorani families of recent contact and in isolation; being a common space where their traditional way of life of use and mobility converges, under references of ancestors who inhabited that territory, and who inherited that place to their later generations. It is this territory where oil activities mark the day to day, but above all they affect the development of conflicts that come to affect their own dynamics and the reproduction of their cultural forms, both of Waorani of recent contact, and of those who opted for isolation.