Los sistemas productivos y su relación con las actividades mineras en la comunidad de Tsuntsuim, en el cantón San Juan Bosco, Morona Santiago

Abstract

: This ethnographic paper is about the economic systems of the Shuar community of Tsuntsuim belonging to San Carlos de Limón, at San Juan Bosco in the province of Morona Santiago. The intention is to examine the relationship between production systems and mining activities in the community, as well as how this activities are related to the population; which production activities do people in Tsuntsuim practice? how and by whom they are carried out? Also, analyze how productive activities are related to the lags of the occupation, militarization and dispossession that has happened to this community.

I did a fieldwork supported by participant observation, which allowed me to understand the context in which the community interacts and how it does with the space itself. I also used dense descriptions; informal semi-structured interviews, arising from spontaneous conversation; and a field diary. The conclusions derived from the acculturation of Shuar people and how the primary economic systems have been mutating into proletarian systems of economic dependency.