The ancestral and traditional ceremonies of the Wayúu ethnic group, a study through hits ceremonial and protocol

Abstract

“Wachuküa müsüka sain wanée a’laülaa joyotüsü spünalu’u ka’i katspüla skujainjatüin sukuwa ipa sumüin wachonyuu ée antüin skal’uu ka’kat”

(Text in "wayuunaiki”... language Wayúu)

[The tradition is like an old woman sitting in the road that has to the younger generations the experiences that she has lived].

Them Wayuu are people of sand, Sun and wind, carry in the moral of the desert, have resisted during centuries in the peninsula of the Guajira, are large craftsmen, and merchants, fighters tireless by their rights historical, that have been very violated by the discrimination and the racism.

Investigate in the World Magic and cosmogonic of an ethnic ancestral is enter is in a space full of wisdom and important knowledge, which not allows that the study of the ceremonial and the Protocol escape to this. The ethnic indigenous WAYUU, located in the space geographical of territory of 15,300 km2 within the Department of the Guajira, Colombia, and 12,000 km2 within the State Zulia, Venezuela, is an example important of the need of search in our estate questions that to simple view not seems have response. Because talk of ceremonial and Protocol in the ceremonies ancestral and traditional of the ethnic Wayuu? because all group human anthropologically has shown that their estate come of myths, which are transformed and staged in rites, these evolved to RITUAL that is developed in ceremonies, that with the step of the time is structured in CEREMONIAL and that were structured and regulated as base of what today call Protocol. In this way we were able to reach the primordial root of anthropological and scientific understanding of our knowledge Protocol. The Wayuu descendant of the Arawak ethnicity, almost relentlessly presents a series of ancient ceremonies based on matrilineal social structure (we can define the genealogically defined matrilineality Wayuu as a group of unilineal descent. These lineages have common element the ties of consanguinity, since all individuals in each group identify themselves as descendants of the same ancestors by female line) and without having undergone significant structural changes over the years, gives us a very successful vision of how we can after polar ceremonies to our academic knowledge of the current Protocol. The ceremonial structure of this ethnic group focuses on three specific social facts, puberty, the union of couple and in death. We know as a conductor and central axis of these ceremonies and what are the most important figures in it. Discover that, even if it does not exist in a formal way the use of terms "Protocol" action Protocol if same occurs, as the use of precedence, label, the organizing entity, etc.