Abstract

CABRERO, Ferran. TWILIGHT OMAGUAS: IDENTITY AND ACCULTURATION OF AN AMAZON PEOPLE (XVII, XVIII AND XIX CENTURIES). Revista Chakiñan [online]. 2022, n.16, pp.211-225. ISSN 2550-6722.  https://doi.org/10.37135/chk.002.16.13.

This study makes visible the changes produced in the Omagua culture of the Amazon Region during the Colony and the first republican years through the analysis of the colonization process suffered by this. It is based on a critical review of texts from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. In addition, two key concepts in social sciences are used: identity and acculturation. The ethnohistoric sources of the missions or province of Maynas (an extensive area of ​​jungle granted by the Audiencia of Quito) are valuable to understand what since the 17th century has been known as the Omagua culture and its consequent nature as a nation, in the sense of conscience of unitary and politically mobilized cultural identity in front of others. Although the Omaguas of the early 17th century occupy a territory that seems larger than that cited in the first chronicles, at the end of this same century colonization causes an increase in conflicts, a population debacle, social destructuring and cultural twilight.

Keywords : Indigenous peoples; cultural identity; colonization; Latin America; Amazonia.

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