Abstract

MONROY-ALVAREZ, Silvia. Consejos comunales and hostages: Reflections on the notion of cultural inimacy and the construction of national stereotypes in Colombia. univ.humanist. [online]. 2009, n.67, pp.309-322. ISSN 0120-4807.

This text aims to reflect on community councils, established during Álvaro Uribe Vélez (Colombia current president)'s first period in office (2002-2006/2006-2010). I intend to understand these councils as the arenas where Herzfeld's cultural intimacy notion (1997) is prone to be evaluated, concerning the existence of areas of cultural sensitivity and creativity, within which some sort of essencialization events strategically reproducing national stereotypes. I intend to show the existence of a cultural intimacy, instrumental when it comes to understand the role of political rhetoric to create social relations within the still efficient boundaries at the Nation-state pattern.

Keywords : consejos comunales; national stereotypes; political anthropology; cultural intimacy.

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