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Title
Unpaved road, San Basilio de Palenque, 1976
Creator
Cross, Richard, 1950-1983
Date Created and/or Issued
1976
Publication Information
California State University, Northridge
Contributing Institution
California State University, Northridge
Collection
Richard Cross Photographs (Bradley Center)
Rights Information
Use of images from the collections of the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center is strictly prohibited by law without prior written consent from the copyright holders. The responsibility for the use of these materials rests exclusively with the user.
The Bradley Center may assist in obtaining copyright/licensing permission to use images from the Richard Cross collection. http://www.csun.edu/bradley-center/contact
Description
An unpaved road goes through the town of San Basilio de Palenque. Before 1971, when a road was built allowing buses and trucks to travel to and from San Basilio, horses, mules, and donkeys were the only mode of transportation. Colombian anthropologist Nina S. De Friedemann had been studying the Afro-Colombian community of San Basilio de Palenque for the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and Richard Cross joined her to do work as a visual anthropologist in June 1975. Friedemann recorded that in several houses the custom of bringing cows and calves for milking the following morning and keeping them in the corrals behind the houses was still maintained. Palenqueros kept part of the milk for family consumption and sold the rest. People in San Basilio de Palenque speak a Spanish-based creole language known as Palenquero. According to public records, in 1975 the village had 2,400 residents (mostly farmers or day laborers) and 388 houses. This image illustrates Cross's anthropological categories: Social change.
An unpaved road goes through the town of San Basilio de Palenque. Before 1971, when a road was built allowing buses and trucks to travel to and from San Basilio, horses, mules, and donkey were the only mode of transportation. Colombian anthropologist Nina S. De Friedemann had been studying the Afro-Colombian community of San Basilio de Palenque for the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and Richard Cross joined her to do work as a visual anthropologist in June 1975. Friedemann recorded that in several houses the custom of bringing cows and calves for milking the following morning and keeping them in the corrals behind the houses was still maintained. Palenqueros kept part of the milk for family consumption and sold the rest. People in San Basilio de Palenque speak a Spanish-based creole language known as Palenquero. According to public records, in 1975 the village had 2,400 residents (mostly farmers or day laborers) and 388 houses. This image illustrates Cross's anthropological categories: Social change.
Type
image
Format
Photographs
image/jpeg
Black-and-white negatives
Extent
35 mm
Identifier
99.01.RCr.N35.B3.76.03
http://digital-collections.csun.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p17169coll1/id/5481
Subject
Dirt roads
Villages--Colombia
Place
San Basilio del Palenque (Colombia)
Relation
99.01.RCr.N35.B3.76.03.tif
Richard Cross Photographs
California State University Northridge. University Library. Special Collections & Archives. Tom & Ethel Bradley Center

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