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La frontera invisible del territorio Wayúu
Fecha
2011-08-01Registro en:
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Autor
Giraldo, Eduardo
Institución
Resumen
The territory of the wayuu people is, currently, located along the northern border of Colombia
and in the northeastern Venezuela. The representations concerning “the Great wayuu Nation,
where there is no border” can be found in sociological and anthropological literature and
are also expressed by some people of the wayuu ethnic group. But the legal international
demarcation of the border has consequences for the mobility and affects the perceptions
within the Wayúu territory. This paper discusses some of the representations concerning
the invisible frontier that crosses the territory, comparing this to some testimonies of what
in practice means the crossing of the invisible demarcation for the Wayúu, a reality that is
confronted to the representations of a territory without borders.