colombia
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“El páramo es vida”: Lessons from the Kamëntsá Land Struggle
Serbal Vidrio #latin america #colombia #indigenous #territory #land #organizing
It was past midnight and a gentle rain pattered against the roof of the shaman’s house, where we sat conducting a whispered interview on a pile of blankets by the fireside. The red record button of my handheld recorder blinked in the darkness. I strained my ears to catch what Taita Antonio, a shaman, ex-political leader, and land defender of the Kamëntsá people of southwest Colombia, said next: “Our fight is for life and for water.
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Despair Hope and Motherhood in Colombian Cinema
Serbal Vidrio #culture #colombia #latin americanContent Warning: Sexual violence, Mental illness
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Weaving Hope: Resistance and Reexistence in Indigenous Colombia
Serbal Vidrio #culture #anthropology #anti-colonialism #colombia #latin americaContent Warning: Colonialism, Racism, Violence
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Queer in the Field: On Allyship and Contradictory Commitments
Serbal Vidrio #queer #lgbtq+ #latin american #colombia #allyship #anthropologyContent Warning: Queerphobia
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Tourism and the Colonial Gaze
Serbal Vidrio #tourism #latin american #colombia #anti-colonialism #inequality #indigenousContent Warning: Colonialism, Racism
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Weaving Resistance
Serbal Vidrio #resistance #culture #art #feature #exhibit #campus #anthropology #indigenous #colombia
The Kamëntsá are an Indigenous community of southwest Colombia whose ancestral homeland is the Sibundoy Valley, a mountain basin straddling the Andean highlands to the west and overlooking the vast Amazonian lowlands to the east. It is fitting that such a unique geographical position, situated between two vastly different ecological and cultural worlds, should be home to a people as unique as the Kamëntsá, who fuse Andean and Amazonian cultural elements, speak a language unrelated to any other, and whose forms of artistic and philosophical expression are singular in the world.