La destrucción de la casa hacienda de la comunidad indígena Pucará de Pesillo de Cayambe y su impacto psicosocial en la comunidad.

Abstract

The following investigation report seeks to identify the psychosocial impact caused by the destruction of the Casa-Hacienda in the indigenous community Pucará (Cayambe, Ecuador). To do this, we proceed to collect elements of the collective memory through testimonies and bibliographic material related to the Casa-Hacienda, the meanings and values that this building has for the people in the community are also identified from its destruction, finally, describe the areas in which the psychosocial impacts caused by the destruction of the Casa Hacienda are manifested. This research has a purely qualitative approach and is based on the narratives provided by ten members of the community, selected intentionally, as well as on the limited bibliographic sources found about this community. The texts allow the compilation of historical data to reconstruct the chronology of the Casa Hacienda, while the narratives bear witness of its recent history, in addition to allowing the identification of psychosocial impacts. The interviews were analyzed from three synchronic categories: 1) collective memory, 2) meanings and evaluations, and 3) psychosocial damage, because the historical importance of Casa Hacienda in the collective memory of the community is identified until its destruction in 2012, then, the perceptions, feelings, metaphors and other meanings that the inhabitants have when talking about the destroyed Hacienda House are identified, finally, from the clash between what was and what this building is, the categories where the psychosocial impacts are manifested are extracted. These categories were extracted from a similar work (Soliz et al., 2018) in an indigenous community in Ecuador and these are: 1) psycho-emotional manifestations of affectation, 2) changes in the belief system, customs, traditions, and other expressions of the culture, and 3) rupture of the social bond, changes in communication, and trust. The work concludes by identifying the specific impacts in each of these categories