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Memory in Sacred Places: The Revitalization Process of the Muisca Community
- Source :
- Urban Planning, Vol 5, Iss 3, Pp 263-273 (2020), Urban Planning, Cities of Inclusion-Spaces of Justice
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Cogitatio, 2020.
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Abstract
- The Muisca community of Suba, located in Bogota, Colombia, is a place-based community whose epistemology is rooted in what is now an urban environment. After enduring over five centuries of segregation, marginalization, displacement, and near cultural obliteration, the Muisca community has thrived to the present day and is currently undertaking the task of re-indigenization through the revitalization of their traditional knowledge and the process of ethnogenesis. The effects of urbanization on the Muisca have not only changed the physical spaces which they inhabit, but it has also disrupted the relational patterns between the community and their sacred places. This severing of the community from their sacred places has had the effect of further invisibilizing the Muisca’s ethnic identity in the national social imaginary. As a form of resistance to their marginality, the Muisca are engaging in symbolic practices, in both public and private spaces, as a means of cultivating ideological resistance, memory revitalization, and generating new meanings of their collective identity. This article, based on an ethnographic case study, seeks to examine how the Muisca community is symbolically re-appropriating their sacred places in this urban context to mend the social fabric of the Muisca community. As such, this revitalization project represents an attempt to reconstruct a forgotten indigenous identity by rewriting the historical memory of a community that disappeared from the national discourse.
- Subjects :
- urbanity
media_common.quotation_subject
0211 other engineering and technologies
0507 social and economic geography
Ethnologie, Kulturanthropologie, Ethnosoziologie
Identity (social science)
Context (language use)
02 engineering and technology
Colombia
Indigenous
Sociology & anthropology
Indigenous communities
memory
resistance
sacred places
urban indigeneity
lcsh:HT165.5-169.9
Collective identity
Sociology of Settlements and Housing, Urban Sociology
Ethnography
colombia
Sociology
Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
The Imaginary
Urbanität
media_common
Kolumbien
indigenous peoples
Ethnogenesis
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
05 social sciences
indigenous communities
021107 urban & regional planning
lcsh:City planning
indigene Völker
Siedlungssoziologie, Stadtsoziologie
Urban Studies
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Ethnology
ddc:300
Ideology
ddc:301
050703 geography
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 21837635
- Volume :
- 5
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Urban Planning
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4b92b8b8357a27fad8bd7edd4f43d6a3