The Role of Women in the Barter Practice as an Own Communication Process

Abstract

The “role of women in the barter practice as a communication process of their own”, it is an investigation carried out in the Kokonuko indigenous reservation, Puracé Municipality, Colombia, and it counted with the participation of the elderly, young people, children, teachers, and council authorities that are part of this community. The purpose of the study was to know the cultural experiences, the cultural memory system, and the living testimony through interviews with family representatives from different villages that belong to the shelter. This work aims to be a path that guides the educational processes and the community itself. This research seeks to strengthen the ancestral tradition of the barter practice as a tool of security, autonomy, food and territorial sovereignty through the recovery of ancestral practices of the community, focused on the role that women play in a strategy that demonstrates the process of Own communication in the shelter.