Bibliographic citations
Gonzalez, N., (2021). Una aproximación a un caso de hibridación indígena: el flujo de consumo material cotidiano y el manejo de residuos sólidos en la comunidad awajún de Wawaim, Amazonas en tiempos contemporáneos [Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/20769
Gonzalez, N., Una aproximación a un caso de hibridación indígena: el flujo de consumo material cotidiano y el manejo de residuos sólidos en la comunidad awajún de Wawaim, Amazonas en tiempos contemporáneos []. PE: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/20769
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title = "Una aproximación a un caso de hibridación indígena: el flujo de consumo material cotidiano y el manejo de residuos sólidos en la comunidad awajún de Wawaim, Amazonas en tiempos contemporáneos",
author = "Gonzalez Pestana, Natalia",
publisher = "Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú",
year = "2021"
}
Since 1970, Wawaim, an awajún community settled in Alto Marañón, has been strongly immersed in commercial dynamics typical of the actual economic modernity. The local economy of Wawaim families has been transformed notably because of external pressure, state programs of social assistance, and the accelerated metabolism of Chiriaco’s market system. These changes have had diverse effects on the behavior of Wawaim population, and on the adjacent environment. Nonetheless, these hybridization process actually began with the arrival of European explorers to the Amazon, and its later colonization and economization by mestiza Peruvian families and foreign companies. This hybridization has generated a mixed economy composed of traditional awajún practices, commercial and labor activities. The communal culture has mutated, it has absorbed modern values and elements, as well as different aspirations associated to usual occidental promises. The central purpose of the research is to understand the everyday consumption flows in the Wawaim community as an expression of this hybridization process, emphasizing the production and management of solid household waste. Based on ethnographic approach, semi-structured interviews, focus groups and participant observation, it can be stated that Wawaim is in the process of a slow, prolonged and persistent cultural hybridization, conditioned by its geographical closeness to Chiriaco (principal agent of westernization), the obtention of money through social assistance programs, and the work of the school in the community. According to the modern lifestyle adopted actively and passively by Wawaim families, as well as to recent population growth, the production of waste has incremented in volume and heterogeneity, becoming a potential threat to the Wawaim community and to the supportive environment surrounding it, due to the environmental pollution and the sanitary risk this waste represents.
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