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Children boxing inside a boxing ring. San Basilio del Palenque produced three boxing champions: Antonio Cervantes aka Kid Pambelé, a boxing world champion in 1973 and 1976 (welterweight class), Ricardo Cardona (world champion in 1978) and Rodrigo Valdez (world champion in 1977). For the village's residents boxing was part of the socialization since childhood. At four or five, the young boys would convert the cattle corrals into boxing rings and practice punching. They would usually fight within their age groups, but one age group could challenge another to a match. The girls would learn to fist-fight as well by holding each other's body and fight with belly kicks, bites, and rolling on the floor, usually near the "casimba" (the creek bed) where they would go to collect water with older women. The boys instead would punch directly to the face and chest, in the street, or in the cattle pens behind the houses. Some men in the village thought that even if women were traditionally used to practice fighting, it was time for them to stop as it had become not "moral." Few years before these pictures were taken a police officer banned women in San Basilio del Palenque from fighting, establishing a 50 pesos fine if they did. Nonetheless, women of different ages kept the tradition alive. 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. This image illustrates Cross's anthropological category: Social organization. Niños peleando en un ring de boxeo. San Basilio del Palenque produced three boxing champions: Antonio Cervantes aka Kid Pambelé, a boxing world champion in 1973 and 1976 (welterweight class), Ricardo Cardona (world champion in 1978) and Rodrigo Valdez (world champion in 1977). For the village's residents boxing was part of the socialization since childhood. At four or five, the young boys would convert the cattle corrals into boxing rings and practice punching. They would usually fight within their age groups, but one age group could challenge another to a match. The girls would learn to fist-fight as well by holding each other's body and fight with belly kicks, bites, and rolling on the floor, usually near the "casimba" (the creek bed) where they would go to collect water with older women. The boys instead would punch directly to the face and chest, in the street, or in the cattle pens behind the houses. Some men in the village thought that even if women were traditionally used to practice fighting, it was time for them to stop as it had become not "moral." Few years before these pictures were taken a police officer banned women in San Basilio del Palenque from fighting, establishing a 50 pesos fine if they did. Nonetheless, women of different ages kept the tradition alive. 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. This image illustrates Cross's anthropological category: Social organization.
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