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Title
Young men standing in the street, 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
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Description
A group of young men stand in the street next to a group of houses with a thatched roof. Electricity cables hang across the street and between the houses. A lamp post can be seen in every corner (electricity was installed in 1974 as a gift to the community from the Colombian government when boxer Kid Pambelé, from San Basilio del Palenque, won the world boxing championship). San Basilio del Palenque, a town located 31 miles from Cartagena, is considered the first community to officially free enslaved people in the Americas because on August 23, 1691, the Spanish King Charles II signed a royal charter recognizing the freedom of the runaway slave communities in the María Mountains. Local authorities, however, did not sign a treaty with these communities until January of 1714 acknowledging their freedom and ordering the establishment of the town of Palenque San Basilio Magno. People in San Basilio del 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. 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 categories: Social organization, Social change.
Un grupo de jóvenes está parado en la calle junto a un grupo de casas con techo de paja. Los cables eléctricos cuelgan a lo ancho de la calle y entre las casas. Se puede ver una farola en cada esquina (la electricidad se instaló en 1974 como un regalo para la comunidad del gobierno colombiano cuando el boxeador Kid Pambelé, de San Basilio del Palenque, ganó el campeonato mundial de boxeo). San Basilio del Palenque, un pueblo ubicado a 31 millas de Cartagena, considera la primera comunidad en liberar oficialmente a personas esclavizadasde América porque el 23 de agosto de 1691, el rey español Carlos II firmó una cédula real que reconoce la libertad de las comunidades de personas fugitivas en las montañas de María. Sin embargo, las autoridades locales no firmaron un tratado con estas communidades sino hasta enero de 1714, reconociendo su libertad y ordenando el establecimiento del poblado Palenque San Basilio Magno. La gente en San Basilio del Palenque habla una lengua criolla con base en español conocido como palenquero. Según los registros públicos locales, 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 del 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 las categorías antropológicas de Cross: Organización social, Cambio social.
Type
image
Format
Photographs
image/jpeg
Black-and-white negatives
Extent
35 mm
Identifier
99.01.RCr.N35.B2.49.09
http://digital-collections.csun.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p17169coll1/id/6057
Subject
Village communities
Men, Black--Colombia--San Basilio del Palenque
Place
San Basilio del Palenque (Colombia)
Relation
99.01.RCr.N35.B2.49.09.tif
Richard Cross Photographs
California State University Northridge. University Library. Special Collections & Archives. Tom & Ethel Bradley Center

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