A DECOLONIAL PHILOSOPHY OF INDIGENOUS COLOMBIA

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Philosophically addressing three fundamental aspects of the Kamëntá, an indigenous culture located in southwest Colombia, this book is an investigation of how a native culture creates meaning. Time, beauty and spirit are key philosophical experiences within the Kamëntá culture which should be interpreted both as constituting and as constituted symbols because of their historicity and actuality and their potential power of transformation. The book addresses these living symbols that take hold of the past but whose significance goes beyond their antiquity through the traditions of storytelling and dance, ritual, healing and ceremony as well as the fraught political histories of colonialism and the ownership of the land.