Reseña

“Women of the Sea: Approaches to the Marine and Coastal Areas of Indigenous
Peoples” is a book that emerges from dialogues and reflections between women
of the sea. A work of collective, personal and deeply political construction based
on the testimonies of ten Mapuche, Kawésgar and Yagán women: Pérsida
Cheuquenao, Patricia Avendaño, Ingrid White Llancapani, Rocío Colivoro,
Pamela Zúñiga, Ingrid Echeverría, Eduvina Leutún, Mirtha White, María Luisa
Muñoz and Leticia Caro.
They are the ones who talk to us and share their views and perspectives on
different topics related to the sea. Focusing their reflections on the Marine and
Coastal Areas of Indigenous Peoples—a concept created from the Law of the
same name and a process in which Indigenous women have had a fundamental
role both in the drafting of the law and the application process for processing the
Ecmpo. Thus, they share with us the importance that these areas have for them,
the various roles and customary uses that they exercise there, their main
contributions and the difficulties and gaps that they face in their daily lives for
being women and belonging to Indigenous peoples. They also reflect on the
continuity in the protection and defense of the sea, the generational transfer of
their struggles and knowledge processes and conclude with recommendations
to the State and other actors.