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  • 23.1.2022 Interview #1

    INTERVIEW WITH DUGUNAWIN TORRES (IKʉ/ARHUACO COMMUNITY), SIERRA NEVADA DE SANTA MARTA What I perceived among Arhuaco community, photography is not common there. People do not take photographs, they do not have cameras. When did you first saw photographs?My family met friends from USA when I was very little (*1999) when they visited Sierra Nevada de…

  • 22.1.2022 The Inflated Jungle movie

    THE INFLATED JUNGLE, A FILM BY ALEJANDRO NARANJO

  • 22.1.2022 Indios a caballo, Bolinder

    INDIOS A CABALLO BOLINDER, history Photograph taken by Gustav Bolinder, 1920, captioned “Capuchin monk padre Andres leads ijca boys in Swedish gymnastics”. Source: National Museums of World Culture, Museum of WorldCulture (Världskulturmuseet), Sweden, photo #000733

  • 21.1.2022 Moving pictures

    Catalina Muñoz (2017): Moving pictures: memory and photography among the Arhuaco of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, History and Anthropology Photograph taken by Gustaf Bolinder, 1914/1915, captioned “Girl punished for theft”. Source: National Museums of World Culture, Museum of World Culture (Världskulturmuseet), Sweden, photo#000755. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02757206.2017.1281267 All photographs reproduced in this article are copyrighted…

  • 20.1.2022 The Gift, book

    THE GIFT, MARCEL MAUSS, book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gift_(essay) References and bibliography Mauss, M. (2016) First published 1925. The Gift. Hau Books Chicago.

  • 19.1.2022 In the Land of the Head Hunters movie by Edward S. Curtis

    Edward S. Curtis, In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914) – Silent film

  • 18.1.2022 Native Americans

    NATIVE AMERICANS, history Map of the Indian tribes of North America, about 1600 A.D. along the Atlantic, & about 1800 A.D. westwardly Image source: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth298411/m1/1/ https://usa.usembassy.de/society-natives.htm https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/04/native-americans-stories-california https://www.vox.com/2015/5/27/8618261/america-maps-truths https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/native-american-cultures#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20U.S.%20Census,the%20North%2C%20ice%20blocks). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States

  • 17.1.2022 Field work 2019

    TESTING PHOTOGRAPHY AS A RESEARCH METHOD, JAROSLAVA ŠNAJBERKOVÁ, SIERRA NEVADA DE SANTA MARTA, NOVEMBER 2019 In November 2019 in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta I have tested use of photography as a research method which was inspired by the book Visual Anthropology. During the one month field work with Colombian ethnologists I was taking notes…