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- Title
Kariburu: digresión ritual y posicionamiento político en el trabajo de curación entre los embera.
- Authors
Jaramillo, Pablo
- Abstract
The analysis of rituals as a way of political positioning has been a very difficult task, essentially because the category of ritual itself has darkened important issues concerning the rituals' functions. Using the category of ritual digression, the present paper assesses how a specific healing ritual performed by Embera people becomes a tool to generate political commitment. The study considers the ritual as a discursive and performative work, which produces political identities in a context where conflict prevails. The present work is based in ethnographic fieldwork carried out from 2000 to 2004, in sporadic seasons in an Indian reserve called La Albania, Risaralda and San José de Caldas, Caldas, Colombia.
- Subjects
COLOMBIA; RITUAL; POLITICAL science; ETHNOLOGY; ETHNICITY; HEALING; EMBERA (South American people); INDIGENOUS peoples of South America
- Publication
Universitas Humanística, 2007, Issue 63, p133
- ISSN
0120-4807
- Publication type
Article