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Proxémica, kinésica y antropología. Apuntes sobre simulación etnográfica, cuerpo y espacio en el marco del conflicto armado colombiano
Author(s) -
Carlos Cárdenas,
Carlos Arturo Duarte Torres
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
antipoda/antípoda
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.159
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 1900-5407
pISSN - 2011-4273
DOI - 10.7440/antipoda25.2016.02
Subject(s) - jungle , ethnography , armed conflict , proxemics , humanities , national park , citizen journalism , art , politics , sociology , ethnology , history , anthropology , political science , archaeology , communication , law
This work presents some ethnographic reflections from a research project focused on the insertion process when joining a guerrilla organization in Colombia as a ritual process. This study took place at a School of Combatants of the National Liberation Army - ELN. As a result, the authors earned their B.A. degree in Anthropology with merit at the National University of Colombia in 2001. Twelve years later, this article is presented reflecting upon two non-verbal communication forms of expression: on one side, the body kinesics under the armed conflict requirements of the armed conflict in a rural area; and on the other, the proxemics built by a community in order to transform and functionally own fragments of the jungle under the particular demands of the guerrillas´ war. Therefore, we aim at understanding how ethnographic interaction in political armed violence operates as a sensitive experience, where gestures and simulations (meta-messages) flowing in a jungle of symbols can possibly, and quiet remarkably, make the difference between life and death

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