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Emerald Freedom: “With Pride in the Face of the Sun”
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Esmeraldas, Ecuador, became home to free African and Afro-Hispanic people in the mid 1500s. It is the only region in the Americas where self liberation— cimarronaje—of Afro-descendant people preceded slavery. It is also the region that soon gave birth to zambaje, the emergence of an African-Indigenous population. This article sets forth salient dimensions of historical and contemporary blackness before sketching the enduring and transforming cultural dynamics of this rain-forest littoral region of the neotropics by reference to cosmovision, the marimba dance, arrullos, chigualos, alabados, la tumba, and la tropa. Following this sketch I turn to political economy, cultural ecology, and globalization. Esmeraldas, Ecuador, deviene un santuario para africanos libres y gente afrohispana a mediados del siglo 1600. Es la única región en las Américas donde la autoliberación —cimarronaje—de personas afrodecendientes precede la esclavitud. Es también donde surge el zambaje, el desarrollo de una población africanaindígena. Este artículo expone dimensiones sobresalientes de la negritud histórica y contemporánea. Explica dinámicas culturales persistentes y en transformación en este bosque lluvioso litoral neotrópico haciendo referencia a la cosmovisión, la danza de la marimba, los arrullos, los chigualos, los alabados, la tumba, y la tropa. Luego enfoca economía política, ecología cultural, y globalización.
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- Authors
- Whitten, N. E.
- Affiliations
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Corresponding author
- Whitten, Norman E
- Venue
- Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
- Published
- 2005-06-01
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2572-3626 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4404538749
- Cited by
- 1
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-sa
- Locations
- Tipití Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- Digital Commons - Trinity University (Trinity University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Afro-Latin American Studies
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Caribbean history, culture, and politics
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Indigenous Studies in Latin America
- Keywords
- Esmeraldas, cimarronaje, self-liberation, Afro-descendants, Blackness, cosmovision, cultural ecology, political economy, globalization, Afro-descendant history
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