Carrizosa, Joaquin (2015) The Shape-Shifting Territory: Colonialism, Shamanism and A’I Kofán place-making in the Amazonian Piedmont, Colombia. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis, University of Kent, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Leticia, Amazonas. (doi:10.22024/UniKent/01.02.50994) (KAR id:50994)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/01.02.50994 |
Abstract
This research attempts to bring into a serious dialogue critical ethnography and postcolonial historiography to analyse the Kofan indigenous peoples of the Colombian amazon frontier and the transformations of their socio-spatial practices and cosmographies in a long durée perspective. The thesis is chiefly focused on problematizing "indigenous territory", the notion that is taken for granted by a diverse range of actors, including the Colombian state, indigenous activist, as well as analysts. The ethnographic exploration presented unpacks the ways in which the Kofan people constructs and perceives the territory as complex and 'shape-shifting' in a context of historical violence, colonization, missionization, cocaine production, sorcery and militarization.
Item Type: | Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)) |
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Thesis advisor: | Peluso, Daniela |
Thesis advisor: | Alexiades, Miguel |
DOI/Identification number: | 10.22024/UniKent/01.02.50994 |
Additional information: | The author of this thesis has asked that this thesis be made available on an open access basis under the licence displayed. 15/03/2022 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Territory, shamanism, colonialism, amazonia, indigenous |
Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Anthropology and Conservation |
Funders: | Organisations -1 not found. |
Depositing User: | Users 1 not found. |
Date Deposited: | 14 Oct 2015 15:00 UTC |
Last Modified: | 17 Aug 2022 10:59 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/50994 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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