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Ethnicity and Religion in the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina
Author(s) -
RANOCCHIARI DARIO,
CALABRESI GLORIA
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/blar.12475
Subject(s) - ethnic group , archipelago , context (archaeology) , ethnology , ethnography , politics , creole language , cloister , history , commonwealth , colonialism , anthropology , ethnogenesis , geography , genealogy , sociology , archaeology , political science , law , linguistics , philosophy
Moving between historic reconstruction and ethnographic data, this article analyses the close relationship existing between memory, religion and ethnicity in the case of the Raizal people of the islands of San Andrés and Providencia (in Colombia's Western Caribbean). The dual colonial history of the islands and the peculiar modalities of the emergence of Creole society there, which is closely related to the establishment of the Baptist Church in a context of relative isolation, contributed decisively to defining the current political demands of the Raizal ethnic movements.