Traditional, transnational, and cosmopolitan: The Colombian Yanacona look to the past and to the future
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Jackson, Jean E.
Ramirez, Marcia Clemencia
Date Issued
July 2009
Journal
American Ethnologist
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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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
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Abstract
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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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anthropology Program
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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2009.01177.x
