Plantas que curan y descolonialidad. prácticas cotidianas comunitarias de las mujeres, en Montes de Maria.

Abstract

The article starts from the reflections of the PhD research Groupality Curator. Decoloniality of peasant and afroindigenous knowledge-practices, in Montes de María (Colombian Caribbean); interested, from a decolonial perspective, by those knowledge to cure that were excluded by modern and colonial science, silencing the potential that involves the community. We focus on practices of everyday life such as the referred to cure with plants used by peasant women in San Francisco, Medellin and Villa Colombia (OvejasSucre). The tools and techniques were mapping of community knowledge and practices, collective interviews, observations and community tours through the paths and vegetable gardens; also in the field diary, as a support tool for the registration and description. The method of qualitative analysis of information, privileged the point of view and the experience of women. The decolonial contributions guided our reflections and the analysis of the field material on the knowledge and practices of cure. In the silenced knowledge that resides in everyday practices, there would be the keys to cure the pains of war in the Colombian territories; what justifies a reflection and a learning for the academy, in particular, for Community Psychology.