Experience of motor skills in the original Yanacona and Misak communities: towards the configuration of the social fabric and cultural identity

Abstract

This article is the product of a research project called La Motricidad Humana: vivencia de las Comunidades Originarias Yanaconas y Misak en la Configuración de Tejido Social e Identidad Cultural. This research project was based on the qualitative approach and supported on the types of ethnographic and participatory methodology.
This project tried to seek the understanding of the experiences and motor interactions that have enabled shaping the social fabric and cultural identity in the Misak and Yanacona indigenous communities that live in the department of Huila. This was performed in order to build a proposal based on the motor expressions supported in the human motricity science and the native communities' worldview in Colombia. In particular,  this research project enquired about the native motor expressions, the impact and the contribution of these in building the social fabric