Abstract

ORRANTIA, JUAN CARLOS. MATICES KOGUI. REPRESENTACIONES Y NEGOCIACIÓN EN LA MARGINALIDAD. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2002, vol.38, pp.45-75. ISSN 0486-6525.

THERE EXISTS AN IMAGE OF SO-CALLED KOGUI CULTURE THAT CONSIDERS IT AN ESSENTIAL element for the preservation of biodiversity as part of the conservationist schemes in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Colombia). My purpose here is to engage the history of this image from certain anthropological representations that participated in its definition, as well as tracing the process of articulation of this image with the discourse of conservation. For these matters I consider the work of authors from the Sierra's ethnographic archive as well as processes and tecno-scientific tolos used in the conservationist strategy of the Sierra. As a result of this, notions such as marginality have been reinforced on the Sierra Nevada and its inhabitants. Notwithstanding, my approach to marginality considers it not just a form of classification, but also a process of cultural and political production, that is negotiable from, by, and through the images that reinforce it.

Keywords : Anthropological representations; discourse of conservation and tecno- scientific tools; negotiation of marginality; Kogui indigenous people.

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