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A loaded mule walks by a bridge construction site where a couple of young men are working. 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 del 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 del 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. Una mula cargada camina por el sitio de construcción de un puente donde trabajan un par de jóvenes. 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 del 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 del 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.
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