Tepe Notokape Bikime (Chicha de morete para la vida): La Afectividad en Kewenkode (chakra wao)

Abstract

This article describes and analyzes the interaction and communication between human and non-human beings, from the waorani overview in the context of the kewekode (chakra), a social space where intergenerational knowledge transmission occurs. In the chakra, the morete (nontoka), a palm (mauritia flexuosa) that grows in swampy areas, is used to prepare a not-fermented sweet beer (tepe nontokape) consumed once a year by waorani populations. The waorani and the chakra materialize a personal relation that defies the Western vision of Nature separated from humankind.