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Lugar, identidad y producción en la Gran Sabana, Venezuela

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ID5019902
AuthorsLuis Fernando Angosto Ferrández, Luis Angosto-Ferrandez (0000-0003-4459-208X, The University of Sydney, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume49
Issue1
Pages11-43
Publication date2013-06-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista Colombiana de Antropología (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0486-6525 • E-ISSN: 2539-472X
PublisherInstituto Colombiano de Antropologia e Historia (ICANH) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.22380/2539472x71
OpenAlexW1789293983
LanguagePT
Citations received3
References cited6

The bases of a type of production enmeshed in the capitalist system emerged in Gran Sabana during the twentieth century, but still nowadays a part of its ancestral Pemon inhabitants maintain a notably autonomous economy of subsistence. In order to explain this situation, in this article I identify how exoticising narratives of place and identity constructed around the Gran Sabana and its ancestral inhabitants have contributed to consolidate a reductionist polarisation that approaches all social issues in the region through an analytical distinction between ‘indigenous’ and ‘non-indigenous’ spheres. In addition, I examine material foci that, independently from those spheres of analysis, structurally diversify the inhabitants of Gran Sabana. I argue that taking these material foci of social diversification into account should be crucial for those who seek solutions to existing problems in the region. https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472X71

Archaeology · Art · Biology · Diversification (marketing strategy · Ethnology · Geography · Humanities · Identity (music · Indigenous · Sociology · Subsistence agriculture · Archaeology and Cultural Heritage · Latin American Urban Studies · Regional Development and Innovation · Ecology

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