Cultural maps of the mobility life of the E´ñepá indigenous group of Caruto: analyses of the relationship between represented spaces and life narratives of a perpetual displacement in time

Abstract

This article is a selection of results from a master's research of the Postgraduate Program in Societies and Borders of the Federal University of Roraima (UFRR). The text describes in a relational way the mobility process of a group of indigenous Venezuelans of the E'ñepá ethnicity in a "coming and going" between territories of origin and other local territories, national and international. The results provide evidence of high mobility dynamics and forms of occupation of space. The theoretical methodological framework is set within the current studies of contemporary human mobility, focused on the subjectivities of the participants contextually situated in time and space, on the multidimensional, multidirectional and interdisciplinary nature of the territory and space categories, as well as on the link that they establish memory and identity in favor of processes of social reconstruction, struggle, resistance and emancipation. At the end, we present the final considerations of the data analysis collected from three life stories and a workshop of social maps elaboration.