Abstract

CARDENAS, Carlos  and  DUARTE TORRES, Carlos Arturo. Proxemics, Kinesics and Anthropology. Notes on Ethnographic Simulation, Body and Space in the Colombian Armed ConflictProxêmica, Cinésica e Antropologia. Anotações sobre simulação etnográfica, corpo e espaço no âmbito do conflito armado colombiano. Antipod. Rev. Antropol. Arqueol. [online]. 2016, n.25, pp.33-58. ISSN 1900-5407.  https://doi.org/10.7440/antipoda25.2016.02.

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.

Keywords : Simulation; armed conflict ethnography; proxemics; kinesics; visual anthropology.

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