La organización comunitaria una alternativa para los pueblos andinos: caso de la comunidad Lagunas, cantón Saraguro, provincia de Loja

Abstract

To investigate, to analyze and to systematize an experience of community life, means to understand the processes and to locate us in the time and in the space. From this perspective the fundamental objective of this work has been to study how an indigenous community that is geographical, political and legally inside a country normed through "same laws for all", you can to experience a community system of life based on the principles of the Andean cosmovisión. We have begun giving a retrospective and finding a process that gives bill that the Andean towns in general and in a particular way it has been affected by the Spanish invasion until the point of being destroyed almost in their entirety. In spite of that has been able to understand in certain way, as these towns they have resisted and they have not disappeared completely; thanks to their wisdom that when knowing the threat to which were exposed they kept their knowledge with the purpose that they are not discovered. This way they have been able to safeguard their form of life maintaining certain values and to see the reality otherwise, in other words their cosmovisión that begins to be rediscovered through the Yachak and Amawtas.