Aidaiza and baa wa wa/jai wa wa: Stories, Visions, and Frameworks on “Disability” from two Indigenous Worlds in Colombia

Abstract

This article describes some interconnections or dynamic frameworks around “disability” of two indigenous worlds in Colombia, the Murui Muina-Minika (Amazonas) and the Êbêra Eyábida (Antioquia), using as reference their stories of origin and their concepts within their ancestral language (aidaiza and baa wa wa / jai wa wa>, respectively). The text explores some singularities in each world from the anthropoecogenic and theoecogenic perspectives, which differ from and interfere with the paradigms of the modern / colonial matrix around “disability”.