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Title
Boy standing next to a cow, 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
A boy is standing next to a cow in a field surrounding town, resting his arm on the animal's neck. 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. The children, Friedemann registers, ride on the cattle, frolic, caress, talk to it, and each calf, cow and bull have a name: Candelaria, Vinotinto, Chupete. The learning of livestock management is game and is an exclusive labor of men. 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: Inventory of male-female work roles, and Social organization.
Un niño está de pie junto a una vaca en un campo que rodea al pueblo, apoyando su brazo sobre el cuello del animal. 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. Los niños, registra Friedemann, montan sobre el ganado, retozan, lo acarician, le hablan y cada ternero, vaca y toro tienen un nombre: Candelaria, Vinotinto, Chupete. El aprendizaje del manejo del ganado es juego y es una labor exclusiva de los hombres. La gente en San Basilio de Palenque habla una lengua criolla con base en español conocida como palenquero. Según los registros públicos locales, en 1975 el pueblo tenía 2,400 residentes (en su mayoría agricultores o jornaleros) y 388 casas. Esta imagen ilustra dos categorías antropológicas de Cross: Inventario de los roles laborales masculino-femenino y Organización social.
Type
image
Format
Photographs
image/jpeg
Black-and-white negatives
Extent
35 mm
Identifier
99.01.RCr.N35.B2.43.03
http://digital-collections.csun.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p17169coll1/id/10304
Subject
Children, Black--Colombia--San Basilio del Palenque
Cattle herding
Thatched buildings
Place
San Basilio del Palenque (Colombia)
Relation
99.01.RCr.N35.B2.43.03.tif
Richard Cross Photographs
California State University Northridge. University Library. Special Collections & Archives. Tom & Ethel Bradley Center

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