Marka, Ayllu and W'aka in São Paulo and Buenos Aires: Aymara and Quechua transterritorialization in a migratory situation

TRANSTERRITORIALIZAÇÃO AYMARA E QUECHUA EM SITUAÇÃO MIGRATÓRIA

Abstract

Since the end of the last century, the Quechua and Aymara ancestral territory, Tawantinsuyu and Kollasuyu, has been expanding and reaffirming itself outside its regions of ancestral mobility. In Buenos Aires and São Paulo, as in Lima and Santiago de Chile, many migrant people coming from the central Andean altiplanic territorial axis and taken only in their national-republican identity, like Bolivians and Peruvians, are also people who declare themselves as Aymaras and Quechua. Thousands of kilometers away and with more than three thousand meters of difference in altitude, these people constitute their indigenous territories among neighbors and family members, in between their music and dance groups and their political articulations. The affirmation of their communal territorial units, such as the ayllu, and sacred ones, such as the wakas, takes place in a negotiation form, possibly synergistic or inevitably conflictive. Pending between Buenos Aires and São Paulo, we will see in a comparative way how these processes of readaptation and dispute over territories have been taking place and, through it, the reaffirmation of the Aymara and Quechua existence outside ancestral territory.