Prácticas de crianza, legado cultural afrodescendiente. Narrativas de mujeres afrovenezolanas

Abstract

The nurses, ayas, nanas, mothers or wet nurses had at their charge, during the colony and slavery periods in the Abya Yala and the Caribbean, the care and upbringing of the sons and daughters of the masters and together they settled the process of attachment, both an affective and cultural bond. The purpose of this article is to make visible, from the narratives of the Afro-Venezuelan women, the upbringing practices of the Afro-descendant cultural legacy that are currently preserved and, thus, have become a spiritual immaterialheritage that is vivified in the Afro-Venezuelan enclaves and the urban spaces. The study was performed with a qualitative methodology that is complemented by the ethnographic and biographical-narrativeapproaches. The research made use of conversational meetings with four Afro-Venezuelan women[am]nbsp, intentionally selected, two of them are the writers of this article. The upbringing practices, more than anarrative fact of Venezuelan history, are an ancestral and quotidian practice where women have been and will keep being the protagonists, transmitter of values, preservation of the religious conceptions andcentral axis of the family group.