Lorena Romero Leal, University of Florida

En 2016 los diálogos de paz entre el gobierno colombiano y la ex-guerrilla de las FARC culminaron exitosamente en la firma del Acuerdo Final para la Terminación del Conflicto y la Construcción de una paz estable y duradera. Sin embargo, su implementación se ha visto limitada por las acciones y mensajes contradictorios del actual gobierno para materializar la paz territorial, especialmente en las regiones más impactadas por el conflicto, como lo es la Amazonía colombiana. En consecuencia, diferentes sectores de la sociedad civil se han organizado para realizar un seguimiento detallado a los avances y dificultades de la implementación de los Acuerdos y con ello, exigir al Estado la realización de acciones concretas en aras de alcanzar una etapada de post-conflicto.

El Semillero de Investigación “Seguimiento a la implementación de los acuerdos de paz en la Amazonía” es una iniciativa de la sociedad civil y academia, que busca entender el nivel y efectos que ha tenido la implementación del Acuerdo de Paz en la región más extensa y diversa de Colombia. El objetivo de este póster es presentar la experiencia del Semillero para incentivar el desarrollo de propuestas colectivas de investigación y prácticas colaborativas en medio de la pandemia, así como dar a conocer los avances de los estudios preliminares que hemos adelantado. Nuestra hipótesis de trabajo es que, aunque la implementación efectiva de los Acuerdos de Paz tiene que ver en gran medida con la voluntad política de los gobierno de turno, la sociedad civil cumple un rol fundamental por medio de la participación, la veeduría y el control político, sobre todo en las conocidas regiones de frontera.

Elizabeth Schierbeek, George Mason University

Indigenous Peoples have long participated in forms of collective action to rectify previous injustices and/or to protect and promote present and future rights. Here we present community position statements as a tool for amplifying the views and concerns of Indigenous communities. We highlight a position statement writing project conducted in partnership with the Maijuna and Kichwa Indigenous groups of the Peruvian Amazon. Maijuna and Kichwa federation leaders (FECONAMAI and FECONAMNCUA, respectively), elders, and other community members took part in a community-based project, from which a multilingual (Máíjɨḵì, Kichwa, Spanish, and English) community position statement was collaboratively developed. The position statement leverages Indigenous and Western knowledge systems and speaks out against a planned government road project threatening Maijuna and Kichwa ancestral lands and lifeways. Given the potential for community position statements to empower Indigenous communities, bridge knowledge systems, inspire collective action, and defend Indigenous cultures and lifeways, we strongly feel that they should play a role in anthropological research and advocacy.

Taynã Tagliati, University of Bonn

The kayapó – or mebêngôkré – are entangled in complex networks of multi- and interscalar relations. Several actors, such as community leaders, government bodies, indigenous or environmental organizations and other institutions, including productive and interethnic relations, are influenced by the various degrees and levels of asymmetrical dependencies involved in these relations. This project demonstrates how the kayapó social body is (re)produced in such networks and the social processes it has been involved in over the course of the last hundred and fifty years. In order to do that, it examines kayapó collections in museums in Europe and Brazil, focusing on body adornments and tools of body marking. Written primary sources as well as pictures and paintings are also included. During fieldwork, it focuses on the productive activities applying the operative chain approach, including each step of object production, but also object consumption/possession and circulation. It analyzes the Mebêngôkré Traditional Seeds Fair, especially the Urucum (Bixa Orellana) and Jenipapo (Genipa Americana) seeds, used in body-painting and tattooing. A focus on the material production of the kayapó social body provides a better understanding of the asymmetrical relations of dependency among the kayapó. These relations are composed across different scales, from internal (re)productive relations to the broader commercialization of indigenous labor products on an international scale. The poster presents this project and its main questions of research.