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Close-up portrait of Fermín Herrera. He is posing for the photographer in front of a banana tree holding a rifle in his right shoulder. Herrera was one of the leaders of the community. As a young adult, he left the town to go work for the United Fruit Company in the Magdalena province. He worked in the plantation until 1928, when workers went on strike and the soldiers opened fire killing more than a thousand workers. After that event, he went back to San Basilio de Palenque and prospered. In the 1970s, he owned around 300 cattle and 500 acres of land. Colombian anthropologist Nina S. de Friedemann had been studying the Afro-Colombian community of San Basilio de Palenque since 1973 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: Social organization. Retrato de primer plano de Fermín Herrera. Él posa para el fotógrafo frente a un árbol de plátano con un rifle en el hombro derecho. Herrera trabaja con un machete en un campo de maíz. Fermín Herrera fue uno de los líderes de la comunidad. De joven, salió del pueblo para ir a trabajar para la United Fruit Company en la provincia de Magdalena. Trabajó en la plantación hasta 1928, cuando los trabajadores se declararon en huelga y los soldados abrieron fuego matando a más de mil trabajadores. Después de ese evento, regresó a San Basilio de Palenque y prosperó. En la década de 1970, poseía alrededor de 300 reses y 500 acres de tierra. 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: Organización social.
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