Prologue

In the vastness of the Amazon, where rivers are veins of life and the jungle holds ancient secrets, the Ticuna people emerge as custodians of a legacy that transcends borders. Ticuna: The men in black is more than a book; it is a dialogue between ancestral knowledge and global academia, a bridge woven by institutions such as La Gran Colombia University, the National Unified Corporation for Higher Education (CUN), the Cervantes San Agustín University Foundation (UNICERVANTES), the University of Burgos (Spain), the Technological University of Panama (Panama), and the University of Salamanca (Spain), united in a transdisciplinary project to internationalize knowledge that the world needs to hear.