Parish and care from the orality of a wise and father of the U'wa community

Abstract

Introduction: The World Health Organization (WHO) establishes the active participation and inclusion of ethnic groups in health care decisions, so that there may be a medical and intercultural pluralism. The delivery is resumed as a need of the U'WA community of the municipality of Cubará, from an attempt to strengthen ancestral identities traditionally excluded or unknown, establishing forms of dialogue that allowed the concept of western health to be separated as the only valid model for care of health and as a contribution to decoloniality in prevailing practices. Objective: To recognize the social representations around childbirth, from the story and orality of a savant and father of the U'wa community. Method: Qualitative research of a descriptive type with a phenomenological approach and biographical narrative method, based on an in-depth interview with a knowledgeable father and U'wa father. Results: From the qualitative analysis conducted, four categories emerged: Traditional authorities within the U'WA community, Conception of women, men and the new being, vision of the arrival of a new life from the knowledge of a new conception for the Western world and complications and traditional care. Conclusions: For the U'wa ancestral community birth and birth are transcendental events, whose importance is deeply linked to the conception of the world, to the daily occurrence and to be and to be in connection with nature.