Entre la miel y la misión: Desarrollo, cosmologías indígenas y fe práctica entre los awajún y wampis

• Autor: Di Fonzo, Valerio
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2025
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: PUCP-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.14657/205223
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/31189/28383; http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14657/205223; https://doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.202502.002
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Peruvian Amazon; Beekeeping; Sustainable development; Jesuit missions; Awajun; Wampis; Amazonía peruana; Apicultura; Desarrollo sostenible; Misiones jesuitas; Awajún; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.04.03

This ethnographic article explores how a beekeeping project promoted by the Jesuit NGO SAIPE in Awajún and Wampis communities of the Peruvian Amazon becomes a site of negotiation between indigenous cosmologies, kinship structures, sustainability expectations, and institutional logics of development and Jesuit missionary practice. Through a situated narrative across the villages of Ideal and Soledad, the article examines daily tensions involving gender, labor, markets, and collective organization. Far from being a mere productive initiative, beekeeping emerges as a moral and political field where the Jesuit work tradition, local aspirations, and the dilemmas of translating communal systems into donor-friendly formats intersect. The article suggests understanding such projects not as failures or successes, but as unstable and creative forms of world-making.