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A group of women and girls of different ages gather next to the river to collect water. It was women's role to walk to the river and collect water, and girls from very young accompany their mothers and other women to the well (or casimba), which are the holes in the stream bed from which water is drawn for daily life in homes. Piped water arrived in 1978 and until then the creek was the village's drinking supply and the place to do laundry and bathing. A section of the river was closed and off limits for all adult males. The river was also an important place and space for socialization, where women and girls would talk and learn to properly fight. 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. This image illustrates Cross's anthropological category: Inventory of male-female work roles. Un grupo de mujeres y niñas de diferentes edades se reúnen al lado del río para recoger agua. Las niñas desde muy pequeñas han acompañado a sus madres y demás mujeres a la casimba, que son los huecos en el lecho del arroyo de donde se saca agua para la vida diaria en las viviendas. El agua entubada llegó en 1978 y, hasta entonces, el arroyo era el suministro de agua del pueblo y el lugar para lavar la ropa y bañarse. Una sección del río estaba cerrada y fuera del alcance de todos los varones adultos. El río también era un lugar y espacio importante para la socialización, donde las mujeres y las niñas hablaban y aprendían a luchar adecuadamente. La antropóloga colombiana Nina S. de Friedemann había estado estudiando la comunidad afrocolombiana de San Basilio de Palenque desde 1973 para el Instituto Colombiano de Antropología y Richard Cross se unió a ella para trabajar como antropólogo visual en junio de 1975. Esta imagen ilustra la categoría antropológica de Cross: Inventario de los roles laborales masculino-femenino.
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