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Anthropology in Colombia and the Dynamics of the Labor Market

Global Journal of Archaeology & Anthropology, 2019

This article succinctly exposes the history of anthropology in Colombia, emphasizing its relationship with different socio-political conjunctures, and culminates establishing the relationship of what to do about anthropology and the role of anthropologists with current needs and labor market demands in the country.

Joanne Rappaport, Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia. Durham: Duke University, 2005.

In this path-breaking book, Rappaport describes and analyzes the work of “intellectuals” that have during recent decades informed and shaped the indigenous movement in the province of Cauca (Colombia). Based on her fieldwork and involvement with the indigenous movement, she presents the book as the outcome of a dialogue that became “an intercultural exercise, in which I shared ideas originating in anthropological and cultural theory and, in turn, absorbed some of what drove their own agenda.” The book is particularly significant given the social and political conflicts that have shaped the fate of Colombia and foreclosed “utopian dreams.”

Overview of the Colombian indigenous movement

Universos Revista De Lenguas Indigenas Y Universos Culturales, 2011

The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Citation Jackson, Jean E. "Overview of the Colombian indigenous movement." UniverSOS: revista de lenguas indigenas y universos culturales, no.8 (2011): 99-114.

Traditional, transnational, and cosmopolitan: The Colombian Yanacona look to the past and to the future

American Ethnologist, 2009

In this article, we analyze a crisis that resulted when a vehicular road was illegally cut through a corner of southern Colombia's San Agustín Archaeological Park, a UNESCO-designated World Heritage site, by a nearby reindigenizing Yanacona community and its neighboring campesino allies. In numerous meetings addressing the crisis, Yanacona leaders, performing on a transnational and cosmopolitan stage, have asserted and justified their position by creatively combining local and “authentic” discourses with significantly scaled-up heritage, developmentalist, and environmentalist ones. Yanacona articulate and adapt their ethnicity to an evolving global reification of diversity as well as fashion a symbolics of citizenship that critiques modernity but cannot be called “traditional.”[reindigenization, heritage, performativity, state–indigenous relations, politics of culture, cultural tourism, Colombia]

Nancy P. Appelbaum, ,Muddied Waters: Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846–1948 (2003) Duke University Press,Durham, NC xvii+297 pages, $21.95 paperback

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question of analyzing how human beings' relation to nature was changed and reproduced regionally and locally, but to study its impact on social developments and geopolitical events' (p. 321). A final minor, but niggling point: the complete absence of maps is an oversight that might easily have been corrected.