Bodies/landscapes in the black Colombo-Ecuador pacific

Abstract

This article discusses the work of women in the constitution of bodies/landscapes in the Black Pacific Colombo-Ecuador. To this end, it deals with the centrality of waters in the experiences and elaborations of territoriality; of food as a place for meetings and agencies; of shellfish as a relationship established by women between them, the waters and several hydrobiological beings; of the agencies that inhabit the rivers in enchanted entities, stones and gold. The narratives constructed in the ethnographic experience with Afro-pacific women, who are mostly matronas, family and community authorities who build networks of political and affective sisterhood, connecting domestic and public, are adopted as an epistemological basis. Such conception is based on the understanding that the lived experience is a source of knowledge production and that the production of knowledge among Afro-diasporic peoples brings a collective perspective, sometimes with orality as a platform for existence.