Amazonian Indigenous resilience profile: a post-COVID perspective

Abstract

The research responds to the need to make visible the millenary practices in the Amazonian Indigenous communities of Ecuador, through their resilience factors, in the context of the pandemic caused by the SARS-Cov2 virus of the COVID-19. The instrument used to measure their resilience was the RESI*M, which was constructed in Mexico and validated in Indigenous women. The instrument includes 43 items grouped into five categories referring to individual empowerment strategies, social competence, family support, social support and community organisational structure. Ninety-six members of the Waorani, Shuar and Kichwa Indigenous peoples participated in the study, South American Indigenous people living in the Amazon region in Ecuadorian state territory. The participatory action technique was used in their own territories. The results of the research show the dialogues that emerged in the territorial context of the Amazonian Indigenous peoples, their cosmovision, and their capacity to take up their life projects based on the dynamism of their own protective factors and their historical memory.

Keywords

Amazonia Amazonian Indigenous people post-COVID profile analysis resilience resilience factors

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