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Detail of a wall of the fortress of San Felipe de Barajas in the city of Cartagena. The castle was built starting in the 1500s to protect the Spanish Empire's profits coming from its slave trade and the shipping industry. Cartagena is located 60 km from San Basilio de Palenque and in 1975, year in which this picture was taken. The residents of San Basilio could reach the port city by bus through a road build in 1966, but before then villagers could reach Cartagena either on a horse, mule or donkey, or by boat navigating through one of the many rivers of the Magdalena River Valley. The construction of the road brought very rapid social change to the village and the life of its residents. 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: Architecture. Primer plano de un trozo de corteza de un árbol en San Basilio de Palenque. San Basilio de Palenque, una ciudad ubicada a 50 kilómetros de Cartagena, es considerada la primera comunidad de esclavos libres de América porque el 23 de agosto de 1691, el rey español Carlos II firmó una carta real que reconoce la libertad de las comunidades esclavistas fugitivas en el Montes de María. Las autoridades locales, sin embargo, no firmaron un tratado con las comunidades de esclavos libres hasta enero de 1714 reconociendo su libertad y ordenando el establecimiento de la ciudad de Palenque San Basilio Magno. La gente en San Basilio de Palenque habla una lengua criolla en español conocida como Palenquero. Según los registros públicos, en 1975 el pueblo tenía 2.400 residentes (en su mayoría agricultores o jornaleros) y 388 casas. La antropóloga colombiana Nina S. De Friedemann había estado estudiando la comunidad afrocolombiana de San Basilio de Palenque para el Instituto Colombiano de Antropología y Richard Cross se unió a ella para trabajar como antropóloga visual en junio de 1975.Esta imagen ilustra las subcategorías antropológicas de Cross: Vegetación.
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