EL TEJIDO FUNERARIO WAYUU. Rescate de una Tradición Ancestral

This research aims to study the tradition of the woven funeral wayuu. Will analyzethe use and possible fall in disuse of this custom, looking for its dissemination andthe rescue of traditional mortise wayuu in this ethnic funeral rituals. The analysiswill be framed in the cosmogonic vision of tissue, the symbolism, the life and death.In terms of methodology, the study is qualitative character, it seeks to study thereality in its natural context, as it happens. It is focused on the phenomenologicalparadigm, based on the study of cases with own structural components and theirfeatures; It has an ethnographic design and moves in the field of the inductive,specifically in the etnia wayuu, located in the Zulia State.Key Words: Etnia, Wayuu, Woven funeral, Cosmogonic.