INDIGENOUS WOMAN: NARRATIVE ABOUT IDENTITY, BODY-TERRITORY AND SELFRECOGNITION

Abstract

This article aims to rescue the life story of an indigenous woman thinking about her body-territory in the process of self-recognition, from decolonial, feminist and frontier theoretical references. As a methodology, we bet on the hybridization of narrative tools with the ethical-political perspective of decoloniality. For the construction of the narratives, field diaries, open interviews, photographs and the researcher’s writings were used. The question of indigenous identity is complex, since it deals with subjective as well as collective processes. However, we can see that, contrary to what we have given by identity as something that is static, typical of modernity, the life history studied reveals identity much more as a flow, movement and transformation, in which the idea of body-territory it is fundamental since we are all part of this living organism that is the earth.