Estudio de la cultura gastronómica Shuar de la parroquia Macuma, cantón Taisha, provincia de Morona Santiago, 2018

Abstract

The present ethnographic work had for objective the study of the Shuar gastronomy culture of Macuma parish, Taisha Canton, Morona Santiago Province, as a cultural and gastronomic element which has a large amount of wealth which represents its history, beliefs, customs and gastronomic traditions. The present research was non experimental of cross-section where instruments to collect the information were used through the use of interviews to focus groups between 65 to 69 years old with a total of 30 people, the required information could be collected and through the use of surveys to specific groups between 30 and 34 years old, the same ones that were applied to 54 inhabitants of the parish to define the main foods, beliefs, folktales, legends, myths, the most representative of the zone and the importance of the traditional gastronomy and its symbolism to be offered to locals and tourists, to consolidate its position as the most representative through this study, food like yucca with 11.11%, Arutam beliefs with 29.63%, Nunkui tale with 40.74%, Kunamp legend with 37.04%, Urick myth 33,33% and the most representative dishes are the chicha of yuca 14.81%, caracha soup 12.96%, guanta soup 11.11%, chichi of chonta 9.26%, ayampaco of chontacuro 7.41%. With this work it was possible to create the blog "Shuar Gastronomic Culture of the Macuma Parish" in order to spread the information to the society, as well as the importance of retaking the customs, traditions, methods, techniques, ingredients and utensils, and thus maintain the cultural identity of the sector.