Metropolis and Puritanism in Afro Colombia

After the 1991 Constitutional reform, anthropologists & sociologists affiliated with constructivism strongly emerged in Afro Colombia. Applying puritanical double moral standards, they punish colleagues, for allegedly essentializating the history & culture of "black populations." H...

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Published in:Antípoda : revista de antropología y arqueología 2005-07 (1), p.79-108
Main Author: Arocha Rodriguez, Jaime
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Subjects:
Anthropologists
Blacks
Colombia
Constitutions
Constructivism
Cultural Pluralism
Modernity
Reform
Stereotypes
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Summary:After the 1991 Constitutional reform, anthropologists & sociologists affiliated with constructivism strongly emerged in Afro Colombia. Applying puritanical double moral standards, they punish colleagues, for allegedly essentializating the history & culture of "black populations." However at the same time, they exalt modernity as a desirable, irreversible & deeply rooted phenomenon. Part of their narratives lack empirical support & stereotype struggles by those ethnic people in favor of implementing Law 70 of 1993 which gave legitimacy to their ancestral territorial domains, which the 1886 Constitution failed to acknowledge. They further blame anthropologists interested tracing the bridge between Africa & the Americas for introducing "neoracist culturalism" & thus contributing to perpertuate social & economic exclusion of Afro Colombians. Explanations by these scholars are highly conspicuous, considering that they tend to deemphasize the importance of those mechanisms for historical reparation introduced by that constitutional reform. References. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:1900-5407