ABSTRACT
In the last two decades, Community Feminisms of Bolivia and Guatemala have made very significant analytical-interpretative contributions to reinterpret the history, memory, culture and forms of community life. These contributions are inscribed in the cosmogony of the native peoples of our Indo-African-American continent. This chapter will focus on the contributions of Mayan-Xinka Feminism of Guatemala. Mainly, it will analyze the category Body-Territory-Daily Life as constructed from a Cosmogony of Suspicion. On the other hand, this chapter will try to show the richness and potential of this category for a situated, decolonial, feminist and emancipatory Social Work. This chapter aims to make visible the theoretical contributions of Mayan-Xinka Feminism. In general, this feminism is very little known, both in academic circles and in international debates on Social Work and Feminisms. For the elaboration of this chapter, content analysis and theoretical reflection will be used as methodologies. Articles, interviews, documents and publications of Mayan-Xinka Community Feminism will be used. The main findings that this chapter will try to substantiate are the contributions of Mayan-Xinka Community Feminism to ideas about a communal and non-European Life World. In this world, there is no division or dichotomy but unity between feeling and thinking, between feeling-thinking and doing, between nature and culture, between body and territory, between present and memory. This implies an enormous contribution for a situated, feminist, decolonial and emancipatory Social Work.
