From CERLAC (Regional Center for the Promotion of Books in Latin America and the Caribbean) and the Ministry of Education of Colombia, they extended an invitation to our brother Alfredo Mires Ortiz to participate in a discussion about the Network of Rural Libraries of Cajamarca, the Campesino Encyclopedia and orality.
In the Library Network - Alfredo explained - we are a community, we are what we are and we are what we want to be as a people and as a culture. The Network is also a space, a sense of encounter to seek and recover the values that have kept us united in a respectful and harmonious relationship with nature. He also spoke of the principle of community, of the ayllu that encourages and animates us.
Regarding orality, he indicated that, in its broadest sense, it traces the mere diction of words. Orality is the source and writing is the gait or crutches to walk. Orality for us is ferment, it is dignity; It is the perennial memory, and remembering is honoring and awakening. Orality, then, is a vital issue, it is the heart of our organization. "It is not a question of freezing knowledge or museumizing knowledge or fossilizing culture." Yet, it is necessary to preserve the farm, agriculture and the living relationship with the land.
As for the Campesino Encyclopedia, he explained that this is an effort to collect our words and therefore it is part of this structure. It is not a strategy or a goal, since the Encyclopedia is inherent in the life and actions of the Network.
It is therefore necessary to appropriate the reasons that have made this culture possible, to transmit the essence, the cause.
Regarding the role of libraries in relation to orality, he indicated that they should not be set against orality but come from orality, or with orality. They are not an external element, but for discovering ourselves in this wisdom of our peoples, we have to discover or unearth the wealth that is there, if necessary.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGUpQsU-dFI
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