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- Title
ABUELO-PALENQUE: ESTÉTICA, PEDAGOGÍA, Y LUCHA POLÍTICA EN LAS ENSEÑANZAS DEL ABUELO ZENÓN.
- Authors
Pabón, Javier Eduardo
- Abstract
For fifty years, Afro Ecuadorian intellectual and activist Juan García Salazar (1948-2017) documented the collective wisdom inscribed in the oral tradition of African descent peoples in Ecuador. This archive emerges in the region's intellectual realm as a political intervention that seeks to vindicate afro Ecuadorian historical demands while protecting and transmitting ancestral knowledge. It is an expression of the guardians of tradition and a community that defies the Ecuadorian state's white-mestizo hegemony. In Abuelo Zenón, Juan Garcia's compiles the Afro Pacific region's collective wisdom through a dialogical character in his writings. In Ze-nón's reflections, it is possible to read the arch in the work of a collection of materials developed by García, the political proposal of the Gran Comarca of northern Esmeraldas as a strategy for protecting the ancestral land of afro descendants in the region, and the pedagogic efforts to promote the sense of identity within the communities. This paper engages in a dialogue with the aesthetic proposals inscribed in the teachings of Abuelo Zenón. Doing so exemplifies the different stages of a historical process that has adopted different vehicles to document, protect, and strategically share knowledge with concrete political objectives.
- Subjects
LATIN America; ECUADORIANS; ORAL tradition; AESTHETICS; HEGEMONY
- Publication
Latin Americanist, 2022, Vol 66, Issue 1, p95
- ISSN
1557-2021
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/tla.2022.0007