The Putumayo Indians and the Rubber Boom

This article approaches the Putumayo Indians’ memory of the Rubber Boom, in the voice of the Muinane group coming to grips with their painful memories of that violent past, and in the recent initiative of the Colombian government to declare the reconstructed headquarters of the Peruvian Amazon Compa...

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Autores:
Echeverri, Juan Alvaro
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2011
Institución:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/9482
Acceso en línea:
https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/9482
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/6389/
Palabra clave:
36 Problemas y servicios sociales, asociaciones / Social problems and social services
98 Historia general de América del Sur / History of ancient world; of specific continents, countries, localities; of extraterrestrial worlds
Rubber boom
Muinane indians
Putumayo
Roger Casement
Casa Arana
Memory
Rights
openAccess
License
Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
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Summary:This article approaches the Putumayo Indians’ memory of the Rubber Boom, in the voice of the Muinane group coming to grips with their painful memories of that violent past, and in the recent initiative of the Colombian government to declare the reconstructed headquarters of the Peruvian Amazon Company in La Chorrera as a ‘Estate of Cultural Interest’. This memory is represented by Indians in the double image of the Basket of Darkness, which holds the memories of violence, and the Basket of Life, which holds the seeds of the future looking forward to the growing of new generations and leaving behind the dangerous memories of violence and sorcery of the past.