Revista Educación y Ciencias Humanas. N.º 36-37. Año XVIII - Enero-Diciembre 2015
músicos? ¿Cómo se expresan estas características en su visión de mundo y en sus modos de vida? ¿Qué particulariza a los kichwas-otavalo en Cataluña? Son las preguntas centrales de este análisis2. Palabras clave: Kichwas-otavalo, Migración, Barcelona.
The kichwas-otavalo in Barcelona. Theoretical contributions regarding the migration Abstract The kichwas-otavalo are known as the travelling Indians, aristocratic Indians or cosmopolitan Indians. They have a history of displacements inherited from their merchant ancestors, the mindalaes. The objective of this article is to try to reconstruct some elements of a reality traced by cultural, political, economical and historical factors that distinguishes them from any other indigenous group of the Americas. We base our research on some of their experiences in Catalonia, where we’ve done twenty life stories and several informal interviews. We also attended for three consecutive years the Inti Raymi (the festival of the sun) in Barcelona. Besides all this, we contacted through the social media Kichwas living in Spain and in other parts of the world. The migrant experience of Cotacachi family, who own the Inka shops of Barcelona and pioneered the Kichwa migration in Europe and Catalonia, as well as that of some of the exmembers of the Peguche Cultural Group who have been living in Barcelona for twenty years, and that of Lucía Rosero Lema and her brother Sacha, spokespersons of Runa Pacha Association, has been central to the analysis. What factors have influenced the Kichwas from Otavalo to turn into craftsmen, travelers, merchants and musicians? How are these features expressed in their world vision and their ways of life? What characterizes the kichwas-otavalo in Catalonia? These are the key questions of the analysis. Key Words: Kichwas otavalo, Migration, Barcelona. Agradezco a los profesores Miquel Izard Llorens y Caridad Martínez González, sin cuyo irrestricto apoyo familiar e intelectual, esta investigación no habría sido posible.
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