Traditional, transnational, and cosmopolitan: The Colombian Yanacona look to the past and to the future
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 num...
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| author | Jackson, Jean E. Ramirez, Marcia Clemencia |
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| description | 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] |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/617542022-10-01T02:33:09Z Traditional, transnational, and cosmopolitan: The Colombian Yanacona look to the past and to the future Jackson, Jean E. Ramirez, Marcia Clemencia Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anthropology Program Jackson, Jean E. Jackson, Jean E. 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] 2011-03-21T21:06:17Z 2011-03-21T21:06:17Z 2009-07 2009-02 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1548-1425 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61754 JACKSON, J. E. and RAMÍREZ, M. C. (2009), Traditional, transnational, and cosmopolitan: The Colombian Yanacona look to the past and to the future. American Ethnologist, 36: 521–544. © 2009 by the American Anthropological Association https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7036-3865 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2009.01177.x American Ethnologist Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf John Wiley & Sons, Inc. MIT web domain |
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| title | Traditional, transnational, and cosmopolitan: The Colombian Yanacona look to the past and to the future |
| title_full | Traditional, transnational, and cosmopolitan: The Colombian Yanacona look to the past and to the future |
| title_fullStr | Traditional, transnational, and cosmopolitan: The Colombian Yanacona look to the past and to the future |
| title_full_unstemmed | Traditional, transnational, and cosmopolitan: The Colombian Yanacona look to the past and to the future |
| title_short | Traditional, transnational, and cosmopolitan: The Colombian Yanacona look to the past and to the future |
| title_sort | traditional transnational and cosmopolitan the colombian yanacona look to the past and to the future |
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