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Two-story facade of a building built in 1786 by military engineer Mateo Vodopich. Since its construction the building served as the State Penitentiary Center, the Presidio, and barracks for the Instruction of Sailors. The building is now the Naval Museum of Cartagena were maps, ships, and weapons document the Spanish conquest of Colombia. Colombian anthropologist Nina S. De Friedemann had been studying the Afro-Colombian community of San Basilio de Palenque, a town located 60 km from Cartagena and considered the first free-slave community of the Americas, for the Colombian Institute of Anthropology. Richard Cross joined her to do work as a visual anthropologist in June 1975. This image illustrates Cross's anthropological categories: Architecture. Fachada de dos pisos de un edificio construido en 1786 por el ingeniero militar Mateo Vodopich. Desde su construcción, el edificio sirvió como Centro Penitenciario del Estado, el Presidio y cuarteles para la Instrucción de Marineros. El edificio ahora es el Museo Naval de Cartagena donde los mapas, barcos y armas documentan la conquista española de Colombia. La antropóloga colombiana Nina S. De Friedemann había estado estudiando la comunidad afrocolombiana de San Basilio de Palenque, un pueblo ubicado a 60 km de Cartagena y considerada la primera comunidad de esclavos libres de América, para el Instituto Colombiano de Antropología. Richard Cross se unió a ella para trabajar como antropóloga visual en junio de 1975. Esta imagen ilustra las categorías antropológicas de Cross: Arquitectura.
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