Teatro popular y duelo colectivo en Bojayá (Chocó-Colombia)

The value of popular art, particularly theater, is relevant in the processes of ela-boration of collective mourning of communities affected by the Colombian ar-med conflict, especially those derived from the 2002 massacre in Bojayá. The first idea to understand is that the various manifestations of violence experien-ced in the territory, especially the massacre and displacement, had a disruptive impact that profoundly deconstructed the daily life, identity, and the world of assumptions of the inhabitants. Specifically, it caused multiple losses of mate-rial and symbolic order, whose mourning has been very complex due to the dy-namics of the Colombian war that prevented the traditional funeral rituals to say goodbye to the more than eighty dead and fragmented the community, by dispersing it in other municipalities.